From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 14 13:16:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB3237B41B for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16lcZz-0001Bu-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:16:07 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 136824880D for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:16:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 5FC542259C; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:16:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:16:07 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl to C - book recommendations Message-ID: <20020314211607.GH10938@raggedclown.net> References: <3C9107D2.E3BA9F4@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C9107D2.E3BA9F4@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:28:02PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Just curious if any of you have any good book recommendations to learn C (not > C++). I'm a perl guy now, and know a little bit of C, but would like to learn C > easily without the boring "a program is a list of commands ..." stuff. I just > need the "here's how you do this, this, and that. Here's an example and why it > works/doesn't work". > Well you are ruined now. You have learnt perl the paragon of ugliness, and now you want to learn "C" the paragon of conciseness and with at least some semblance of discipline in it's design..:) The *only* book for you is the Bible, K&R, Second Edition. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message