C++ Compiling Problems
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue May 24 12:31:06 UTC 2005
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:20:56PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> >>>the original book by the language's creators: C Programming Language by
> >>>Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. As I said before, C is an elegant
> >>>and small language, and this book is all you need. (Although you may
> >>>also want to pick up The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and
> >>>Rob Pike.)
> >>K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn.
> >This statement is false. As a matter of fact if you use the programming
> >methodology in this book, you're good to go on any true ANSI C compiler,
> >which includes gcc...
> The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system
> implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system.
> This is what I understand is meant by "K & R C."
Yes, but above I didn't say "K&R C" -- I referred to the C Programming
Language book, which *does* cover ANSI C.
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