C Programming

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On the contrary -- it's written in clear, simple language without much
> > distraction, and explains the C language better than any other book I've
> > seen.
> Look this is silly. The book mentioned above is the definitive reference
> book on C but it is not a book from which to learn to program in C. 

It's a small volume, but the back part is reference and the first part is
instructional.
 
> Try learning to program in Python from the Python Language Reference
> Manual.

Talk about silly. 

It's a _very_ different book from the Python Language Reference Manual.

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