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Re: Learning C (on Linux). Please advice.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Simpson)
Thu Nov 5 01:14:28 1998

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:14:33 +1100 (EST)
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From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 5 Nov 1998, in message <001e01be0875$67bd07f0$1701a8c0@phil-t.pract.com.my>
  "Philip Tong" <tmgchee@pop.jaring.my> wrote:
| I know C is the 'universal' language that almost any platform will support.
| There are some differences in each.

Try to program to ANSI and POSIX. Your porting difficulties will be reduced.

| I'm not familiar with C. I would like to pick up the language. So far the
| sites that I have managed to get are all very general tutorial on C.

Buy a copy of The_C_Programming_Language by Kernighan and Richie.
Concise and readable.
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