Free e-book discussing the C Standard

[Derek M Jones <derek@NOSPAMknosof.co.uk>]

All,

Fans of Ada often talk a lot of nonsense about C

Those of you not willing to fork out $18 for a copy of the C
Standard can search for material in the C Standard (at least
you will be once google gets around to indexing it) here:
http://c0x.coding-guidelines.com

A detailed analysis is provided in my book "The New C Standard:
An economic and cultural commentary".  The complete book is
available as a freely downloadable pdf (8M byte).  You can
download a copy from one of:

http://www.cwic-solutions.co.uk/docs/cbook1_0a.pdf
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dmjones/cbook1_0a.pdf

The material also includes a significant amount of discussion
on coding guidelines.  In particular it attempts to use the
results of cognitive psychology studies to suggest and/or reject
coding guidelines (ie, the human factors of programming).

Other book material, and some subsets of it (including just the
coding guideline subsections), can be found at:
http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/cbook.html

You can get the background here:
http://theinquirer.net/?article=24092