Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C...

[Grant Edwards]

In article <983911749.217622 at newsmaster-04.atnet.at>, Werner Schiendl wrote:

>> Yes, you're missing the fact that C++ sucks large rocks through very
>> small straws.  There's some merit in learning C for when low-levelness
>> is wanted, eg. when developing Python.  If you're writing an
>
>I do not see the point, why not use C++ for low-levelness.
>Years ago I had a lot of discussions why use C instead of Assembler.
>The arguments were mainly for performance.
>And still C made the race, guess why?
>It is easier, more powerful, more safe (the compiler can catch more bugs
>then the assembler)

C++ is far more complex that C without being much safer.  Since
the safety has to be "inspected" into the program, you want
to make things as easy to inspect as possible: a nice simple
language.

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