From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: <4gfc6c$2el@solutions.solon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140395624 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4f5h5t$f13@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4g1bgf$l5@mailhub.scitec.com.au> <4g95c4$bhp@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4g95c4$bhp@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: >(Actually, I am being generous about C. Most C textbooks contain serious >factual errors, so if it is so easy to learn the language fully, why don't >the authors get their books right?) Mostly because they're incompetent. C is not a fast-moving target, but it has moved some. Many of the foolish things that have been said probably were true once, and the remainder are people who naively assume that testing something tells you whether or not it works. :) I have seen several decent books. Between _The C Programming Language_ and _C Traps and Pitfalls_, I see no serious issues. (K&R2 does have a couple of sample programs that use a non-standard qsort() which they defined, but they do point out that the standard library provides one. I have seen this lead foolish programmers to make mistakes, but only rarely.) -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1995 Peter Seebach. C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really! FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.] The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.txt