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Re: Improving productivity

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Improving productivity
Date	2016-08-08 19:59 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 8:47:14 AM UTC-5, janus wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> I have noticed that my productivity is pretty low when programming
>> with C language compared to say JavaScript. I am suspecting that I
>> am not using the right tools and systems to properly and quickly
>> zero in on errors and bugs.  Please, list the right tools/systems
>> one could use to troubleshoot and zero in on bugs. And also test
>> suites.
>> 
>
> I've grown fond of the 'classic' tools and highly 
> recommend them: bash (or whatever your command shell is),
> make (to automate compilation), and your text editor.
> The textbook for this is Kernighan and Pike, /The Unix 
> Programming Environment/. Also get a used copy of the
> Unix manual, volume 1, which is all little essays and
> papers about how C and Unix were initially ported to
> several environments and how the language evolved to 
> cope with these and lots of other cool stuff.

That sounds much more like Volume 2 (which, if memory serves, was in two
parts in V7 Unix).  Volume 1 was, apart from a very brief introduction,
all the well-known man sections.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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Improving productivity janus <emekamicro@gmail.com> - 2016-08-07 06:46 -0700
  Re: Improving productivity Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-08-07 18:52 -0700
  Re: Improving productivity Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-08-07 22:59 -0400
  Re: Improving productivity fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 00:49 -0700
    Re: Improving productivity fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 01:32 -0700
  Re: Improving productivity luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 08:04 -0700
    Re: Improving productivity Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-08 09:24 -0600
    Re: Improving productivity Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-08-08 09:22 -0700
      Re: Improving productivity Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> - 2016-08-08 18:47 +0000
      Re: Improving productivity luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 15:23 -0700
        Re: Improving productivity Udyant Wig <udyant.wig@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 11:27 +0530
    Re: Improving productivity Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-08 19:59 +0100
      Re: Improving productivity luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 20:16 -0700
  Re: Improving productivity Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-08-10 03:19 +0100
  Re: Improving productivity jgh@mdfs.net - 2016-08-12 13:59 -0700

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