Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: C for linux ?? Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <50ADD3EC.3040808@telia.com> <50ae3e04$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1353773898 14898 84.45.235.129 (24 Nov 2012 16:18:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:18:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19897 On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:06:52 +0800, SL@maxis wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:12:52 +0800, Martin Gregorie > wrote: > >> What's there to talk about? >> ... >> ... >> I assume that every C programmer has a copy of Kernighan & Richie's >> "The C programming language". > > Thanks. I wonder I have the time to "gather so much" like you. > I've been writing C for something like 25 years (and COBOL for the 15 before that) and tend to collect books. That short list is the stuff I've settled on as the essentials for writing C in a *NIX environment. If your OS is something else you'd have other stuff instead of the Lion book and man pages: - for OS-9 v2 or v3 you'd have "OS-9 Insights" plus the "Operating System" and "Language" manuals (a pair of 50mm thick A5 ring binders that cover absolutely everything you'll ever need to know to write OS-9 programs and drivers in C or assembler). - for Windows, you'll probably end up with half a shelf of stuff which is likely to be incomplete, thanks to MS's fondness for undocumented features. Been there, done that, still got the pile of moldering books. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |