Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:36:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> Cc: joe <joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu>, Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: programming Message-ID: <19990115113637.S55525@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990114202034.8370.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 06:20:33AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901140829560.2195-100000@lab.cba> <19990114202034.8370.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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On Friday, 15 January 1999 at 6:20:33 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >>>> a really good book on C programming (advanced >>>> level, i already have a intermediate level about C). >>> >>> The only good book about C is "The C Programming Language", 2nd >>> ed., B.W. Kernighan & D.M. Ritchie, Prentice Hall. >>> >> Another good book that you might be interested in is "Expert C >> Programming" by Peter van der Linden. It discusses stuff that you >> wouldn't normally find in standard texts. > > Sorry to keep this going, but that book (like 99.9% of other > books on C) is not worth the paper it's printed on. When it > first came out, I reviewed it carefully and noted dozens of > errors. Van der Linden mixes bad advice in freely with the > good, which makes it hard for non-experts to determine what to > believe (and if the reader knows what's good and what's not then > s/he doesn't need the book). > > Stick to Kernighan and Ritchie for C. Use system-specific and > topic-specific books for programming under Unix or Windoze or > using TCP/IP, etc. I've come on this thread somewhat late. The (now anonymous) originator was looking for an advanced level book, and I don't think K&R fits this ticket. I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Rich Steven's ``Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment'' (and in passing his two-volume ``UNIX network programming''). Those are the books I still look at, along with Harbison and Steele's ``C: A reference manual''. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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