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: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX Date: 1996/04/26 Message-ID: <4lqbqo$453@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 151751008 references: <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4l2rvoINN7os@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <01bb2dd1.53b4e740$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu nntp-posting-user: ok Date: 1996-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bradd W. Szonye writes: >You can get 9899 for 30 bucks at a bookstore. Herbert Schildt wrote an >annotated version, much more readable than the standard alone. And $30 is >cheap for computer books. False. Here in Australia, the C standard is AUD 90, and Schildt's book is AUD 85. Neither is cheap. Schildt's book omits some material from the standard, and adds a whole lot of utter _trash_. The left hand pages of Schildt's book _are_ (almost all of) the standard, so they can't be any more readable, and Schildt's own comments on the right hand pages are generally wrong, off topic, or both. I started marking the obvious blunders in red ink, but stopped when my pen ran out. And _that_ is why the _real_ standards are so important; if you read someone else's impressions of what they _think_ the standard is, you may be very seriously misled. (For example, the C standard very carefully and deliberately lists a rather small number of ways you may legally use setjmp(); Schildt's examples use only one of the ways that are _not_ allowed by the standard.) -- Abigail Ruth, born 8 April 1996, 7lbs, wonderful! Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.