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