Anthony Irwin said:
Jack Klein wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:57:40 +0100, Chris Hills <ch***@phaedsys.org>
wrote in comp.lang.c:
Most C programmers have a copy of K&R2 on their shelf, I don't see
nearly as many copies of Stroustrup (any version) on the C++
programmers' shelves. Other books abound, including H&S for the C
programmers, but there are also a distressingly large number of
Schildt books.
Hi I was just wondering what is wrong with the Schildt books?
Nothing at all, assuming you just needed some kindling.
I
purchased the C++ the compleate reference and C the compleate reference
both 4th edition books. The purpose was to have a language reference, I
was under the impression that both these books covered the standards.
Then you might want to give some thought to sueing the publisher. :-)
From time to time, people try to count the bugs in Schildt's understanding
of C and C++, but invariably they lose count and have to start again.
I would give you a little list to get you started, but Seebs did one years
ago, so I'll find you a URL to that, instead:
http://herd.plethora.net/~seebs/c/c_tcr.html
Peter Seebach is on the ISO C Committee, by the way. Here's another, this
one from Clive Feather (who is also on the ISO C Committee):
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html (temporarily down, but bookmark it
for later)
And here's a nasssty trick Peter played on the good folks of clcm (note the
posting date):
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....*@plethora.net
I remember reading that the C reference first covered the c89 standard
then gives the c99 standard.
I am just starting to learn C so was wondering if there is anything in
those books that will lead me in the wrong direction.
I think that's true. That is, just about anything in those books will lead
you in the wrong direction.
I am going to be programming on unix based systems gnu/linux and freebsd
mainly.
"The C Programming Language", 2nd edition, by Kernighan and Ritchie.
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