On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:38:11PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:54:22PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:08:54 +1200
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm sure that this question has been posted previously, but I reckon it's
> > > safe to assume that the answer will not be perennially the same.
> > >
> > > I want to check out some C programming resources, but I do not necessarily
> > > want to learn how to programme. I'd like to be able to look at source
> > > code
> > > from time to time and have some clue of what it's about (and hack it).
> > >
> > > So, I don't really want to buy a book, I thought that there must be some
> > > decent online resources / tutorials that people on this list have found
> > > useful (and would recommend).
> > >
> > > I've got a fairly handy bash / TCL / PHP knowledge and done a little
> > > Python,
> > > so I'm not starting from scratch. I could probably foobar my way through
> > > a job
> > > interview.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Michael.
> > Not online, but there's no substitute for Kernighan and Ritchie. However,
> > would it be a better idea to look into c++ instead?
> >
> > And I'm a committed ( in all senses of the word ) C man.
> >
> > Steve
>
This time with 2 corrections!:
Well the linux kernel is written in C, (Linus did say that writing kernel
code in C++ was a "bloody stupid idea").
^^^
Historically C++ compilers were deemed by the linux kernel crowd as
untrustorthy and so I think that's why many apps for linux ended up being
written in C too.
Again, I'm not trying to learn how to programme C, I want to learn *about* C.
John: I want suggestions from people who've found a reference to be *useful*, I
don't want random Google results. So, do any of your 10 last posts in this
thread come from personal experience, or is your atavism still "fuzzy"?
^^^
Michael.
