C++ Compiling Problems

[John Summerfied]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn.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.

Right at the top of this quote is the mention of a book by K & R.

I used to have Digital Research C, and it (as did some others) came with 
that book.

To the best of my recollection it predates ANSI C.





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