On 2008-05-18, Achim Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Denney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Go read K&R[1]. It shouldn't take more than a week's worth of spare >> time. >> > HELL NO! > > There's a reason why my lecturer always refered to it as "Knall & Rauch > C" (Bang and Smoke C). > > Get the Harbison & Steele instead: > http://careferencemanual.com/
C is a little language. It doesn't /need/ a 500 page tome. K&R is not something to learn programming, and of course, does quite poorly when used as a textbook for that purpose. It is, instead, for programmers to learn C. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
