[ale] Re:

[Charles Shapiro]

And don't forget to look at the Obfuscated C contest.
http://www.ioccc.org.  Awesome!

-- CHS

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 15:21, Bob's ALE Mail wrote:
> I'll second:
> "The Element of Programming Style", Kernighan & Plauger, ISBN
> 0-07-034207-5
> 
>  For C programmers transitioning from Unix or Windows to Linux, the
> following is EXCELLENT:
> Linux Application Development
> Michael K. Johnson, Erik W. Troan 1998
> This 5 star book and your C knowledge will allow you to write
> applications that make full use of Linux, including file I/O,
> interprocess
> communication, signals, raw device I/O, and much more. I have been
> programming in C on Unix for 25 years and Linux for five and it taught
> me
> valuable things!
> 
> I'm not that hot on "Code Complete" but many others have found it
> valuable.
> 
> For those that REALLY want to learn the subtle art and exact science of
> exactly what C does
> (implementation details), see:
> C: A Reference Manual
> Harbison & Steele
> Prentice Hall
> 
> I recommend the following too:
> 
> The Practice of Programming
> Kernighan & Pike (two of the Bell Labs Unix guys)
> Addison-Wesley
> 
> C Traps and Pitfalls
> Koenig
> 
> The C Puzzle Book
> Feuer
> Prentice-Hall
> 
> Read these, study good (and bad C code), and write programs and you'll
> learn C.  It helps to learn from
> a Master but few have that option.
> 
> Bob Toxen
> 
> 
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