From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 14 13:30: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F0637B416 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:29:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2ELTRK24513; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:29:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16690; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:29:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C911615.1722C487@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:28:53 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl to C - book recommendations References: <3C9107D2.E3BA9F4@centtech.com> <20020314211607.GH10938@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Thats hard to find with that little info.. got more? author? Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message