Re: "C" Manual
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:50:22PM -0500, Daniel Freedman wrote:
| 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 :)
Oh, cool.
| > 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).
|
| I have "Pointers on C" and agree with your friends that it's quite good.
:-).
I should have remembered to mention that I have Ken Reek for a class
right now (well, prior to and after break :-)), and he is a good prof.
-D
--
He who walks with the wise grows wise,
but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Proverbs 13:20
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