On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 06:52, Manas Laha wrote: > Arko Provo Mukherjee wrote: > > Hi, > > Very recently, I bought a book called C Unleashed. > > This book is on ANSI/ISO C and not on C for UNIX. > > But C for UNIX _is_ ANSI C. The very reason for standardising C through > ANSI/ISO is that you then don't have to talk about Windows C or Unix C > or Linux C. All you need talk about is just plain C! > > I can't resist giving a bit of advice: "Learn from the Masters!" If you > must learn C, study the book by Kernighan and Ritchie. Work out the > exercises. There's a solution book for them by Clovis and Tondo.
I have to agree - there are lots of good C books around but in the end to learn about efficient and *elegant* C, K&R is what you need to read. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- Disembowelling takes guts. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
