From: ChuckEasttom <chuckeasttom AT my-deja DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Undertaking a programming journey
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 03:16:30 GMT
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In article <39E9FAD5 DOT DE1FDAE4 AT eton DOT powernet DOT co DOT uk>,
  Richard Heathfield <binary AT eton DOT powernet DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Josh Sebastian wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:26:53 GMT, ChuckEasttom
> > <chuckeasttom AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:
> > >What about Schildts books?  I tend to like them.
> >
> > Oy veh! He is one of the banes of competent C programmers
everywhere.
> >
> > I got the following link from the C FAQ:
> > http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html
> >
> > I don't remember where I found this one:
> > http://staff.qnx.com/~glen/deadbeef/2764.html
> >
> > There was a couple more, but I can't seem to find them.
>
> You can add this one to the list:
> http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/c/c_tcr.html - NB Schildt claims to be
on
> the ANSI C committee, but Peter Seebach (whose review appears at this
> URL) really is on the ANSI C committee (as is Clive Feather, who did
the
> review whose URL you already quoted).
>


Something you seem to miss is that the beauty and power of C is the
fact that it lends itself to a variety of programming styles.  I
personally liked Schildts books.  I have only read three of them but
the ones I read I liked.  They where not perfect, but they where good.
Appearantly a lot of other people do, since they sell so well.


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