Re: free books on C in Unix and X programming using Athena widget

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU> wrote on 29/06/2000 (18:02) :
> a  <softguy@citiz.net> writes:
> a> Do you know any web site that has free books on C programming in
> a> Linix and X programming using Athena widget?
> 
> I'd recommend against using the so-called Athena Widget Kit; it looks
> ugly and it's hard to program in.  Many Linux developers these days
> use the GIMP Toolkit, Gtk+, for GUI programming; details on it can be
> found at http://www.gtk.org/.

And a free book on GTK+ is here

   http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html

But I would also recommend against C. I would recommend that you instead
look at Ada 95. It is a much better and safer language. More information
can be found here:

   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ada.html
   http://www.adapower.com/
   http://gtkada.eu.org/

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