Re: C help please - C newbie

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan
Bullard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
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>"Chris Hills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>sorry, i seldom see standard c programs that do any real work.  most are
>full of platform specific types, inline compiler, link, or source control
>commands, inline assembler, etc.

Exactly.  This is why a standard is not the best thing to learn a
language from. 

>also, many c compilers have an option to allow k&r syntax.

Not these days. Remember K&R 1st ed is 30 years old and K&R 2nd ed is
C90

>in a perfect world, all c code would conform to the latest ISO.
assuming C99 is perfect (opening another can of worms in his asbestos
suit)

>actually, in a perfect world we probably would not be writing programs in c.
>:)
FORTH!
There, I've said it before one of the Priests of old FORTH  (poof :-)
says it...

>however, you do make a good point that the k&r book is probably not a good
>transition text from assembler languages to c.  the authors of the book
>disliked assembler and actually developed c so that they wouldn't have to
>use their assemblers.


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