Off topic C question
Steven Rumbalski
srumbalski at prodigy.net
Wed Apr 10 23:29:24 EDT 2002
Aahz wrote:
> In article <231u8a.lc.ln at 127.0.0.1>, Carl Banks <imbosol at vt.edu> wrote:
>>Aahz wrote:
>>>
>>> If you want to be a C programmer, you *MUST* get K&R. Period. Feel
>>> free to buy another book if K&R turns out to be too heavy for you right
>>> now, but recognize that you'll need it eventually.
>>
>>Really? I've been programming in C for ten years, and I've never even
>>seen the K&R book. I think I learned it just fine. Not that I have a
>>better suggestion.
>
> I'm of the opinion that if you used K&R, you'd agree with me.
I'm with Carl on this one. One does not *need* K&R to become a good C
programmer. One can pick up the zen of C (if there such a thing as a "zen
of C") without K&R. Of course reading K&R would probably make that path
less painful.
Steven Rumbalski
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