Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!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 16:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <50ADD3EC.3040808@telia.com> <50ae3e04$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <50aed35e$0$293$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 1353775203 14898 84.45.235.129 (24 Nov 2012 16:40:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:40:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19898 On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:37:31 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > But there are also other good books. > > Stevens' book on Unix programming. > Yes, I've always heard good things about his stuff. I even have his (old) fractals and graphics books. However, they're fairly useless now because they are closely associated with DOS device access and MS/Borland C compilers and, as I'm sure you know, the standard libraries for those compilers were very non-standard. > For C++ "Accelerated c++" and the two "Effective C++" books. > I don't write C++. I have a copy of Stroustoup but found it much harder to read than K&R. I tried to get into C++ but (a) didn't like it a lot and (b) found *huge* binary bloat and rubbish performance. Besides, almost every time I've needed to read a C++ program I've discovered it to be essentially ANSI C with // comments and not an object in sight. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |