C language book recommendations
joseph.a.brownlee
jbr0 at cbnews.cb.att.com
Tue Jun 11 21:30:14 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun4.212317.1213 at keinstr.uucp> chaplin at keinstr.uucp (Roger
Chaplin) writes:
> In article <741 at taumet.com> steve at taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
> > Look over the material again. In their book, H&S are not presenting only
> > ANSI C. They are trying to cover the range of C implementations which have
> > been at all widely used. [...]
>
>I have the 2nd Edition, which has a separate chapter dealing with "draft
>proposed ANSI C". I personally prefer this approach, exactly for the
>reason you mention: not all the compilers I use are ANSI. Perhaps the
>other changes in the 3rd Edition (I assume there are some) would make
>it worthwhile to have.
It is most definitely worth having. Rather than a chapter on ANSI C, each
aspect of the language contains a discussion on both ANSI and pre-ANSI
implementations, and it points out where the ANSI standard differs from
some earlier commonly used implementations. This is imporatant to me,
precisely because I must use both pre-ANSI and ANSI compilers.
H&S is the most practical of the C books I have. I recommend it
whole-heartedly.
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