Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:38:00 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Perl to C - book recommendations Message-ID: <XFMail.20020314163800.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3C911615.1722C487@centtech.com>
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On 14-Mar-2002 Eric Anderson wrote: > Thats hard to find with that little info.. got more? author? Brian Kernighan (sp?) and Dennis Ritchie. Brian is the 'k' in awk which is one of the ancestors of perl. > 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 -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> >> >> 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 -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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