On 09/01/17 11:31, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Jan de Visser <jan@de-visser.net> wrote:
>> Your fear of C in unfounded. The definitive c89 reference is a little book of
>> about 250 pages, more than half of which is about the standard library of
>> which you'll never use more than half. If you have some notepaper laying about
>> on which to scribble pointer diagrams you can be a C programmer to :-)
> The reference guide of Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie? Definitely
> a must-have!
I learnt C from the original version of K&R, and bought the ANSI version
when that came out - at the time I was a COBOL programmer on a mighty
MainFrame (with a 'massive' 1 MB of Core Memory and a 'fast' 2 MHz
processor). Now I use Java.
Cheers,
Gavin