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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e0e0d4450d54dbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe3-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Free e-book discussing the C Standard From: Derek M Jones Organization: Knowledge Software Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/06.08.25 Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:42:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.107.74.82 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe3-gui.ntli.net 1120488125 213.107.74.82 (Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:42:05 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:42:05 BST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11848 Date: 2005-07-04T14:42:05+00:00 List-Id: 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