Re: "C" Manual

[Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:31:36AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> | Gary Turner muttered:
> | > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:11:33 -0500, Phil Beder wrote:
> | > 
> | > >Where can I find a good, complete manual for C and C++ programming
> | > >languages for the gcc compiler.
> |
> ...
> | Kernighan and Ritchie is 'the' C book,
> ...
> 
> Be aware though that K&R is the old standard.  Their book describes
> "K&R C" which is very similar, but a bit different than ANSI C.
> Still, K&R is a highly recommended reference by many people.  (I don't
> have it, but my friend's dad has an really old copy of it)

The second edition of the K&R book, which was published a number of
years ago, was updated to comply with ANSI C, and even says so right
on the cover :)

> 
> I have "The Complete C++ Reference" by Schildt, and it includes a good
> reference of the standard libraries as well as explaining the
> languages.  I never bought it, but some of my friends said that
> "Pointers on C" by Ken Reek is good (he's a professor at RIT).
> 
> -D

I have "Pointers on C" and agree with your friends that it's quite good.

Take care,
Daniel

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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University