From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 12:36:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03920 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03880 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 8371 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Jan 1999 20:20:34 -0000 Message-ID: <19990114202034.8370.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 06:20:33 +1000 From: Greg Black To: joe Cc: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: programming References: In-reply-to: of Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:37:50 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > a really good book on C programming (advanced > > > level, i already have a intermediate level about C). > > > > The only good book about C is "The C Programming Language", 2nd > > ed., B.W. Kernighan & D.M. Ritchie, Prentice Hall. > > > Another good book that you might be interested in is "Expert C > Programming" by Peter van der Linden. It discusses stuff that you > wouldn't normally find in standard texts. Sorry to keep this going, but that book (like 99.9% of other books on C) is not worth the paper it's printed on. When it first came out, I reviewed it carefully and noted dozens of errors. Van der Linden mixes bad advice in freely with the good, which makes it hard for non-experts to determine what to believe (and if the reader knows what's good and what's not then s/he doesn't need the book). Stick to Kernighan and Ritchie for C. Use system-specific and topic-specific books for programming under Unix or Windoze or using TCP/IP, etc. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message