Re: Is K&R Still Relevant?
Re: Is K&R Still Relevant?
- Subject: Re: Is K&R Still Relevant?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 06:14:50 -0400
on 8/28/01 5:23 PM, Chilton Webb at email@hidden wrote:
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With all this talk of which language to learn first, second, and never,
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ever, ever, I'm wondering what the consensus is on Kernighan and
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Ritchie's "The C Programming Language". I haven't heard it mentioned
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recently. At one time, it was the 'bible' of C programming. Is it still
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as important in the Cocoa world?
In the last few months, I've noticed Cocoa API's that require knowledge of a
large number (maybe all) of C's more obscure features. So my view is that,
if you want to be able to make use of Cocoa's full range of APIs, yes, you
must know C. K&R (2d edition) is good for that, in part because it is an
easy and definitive lookup reference.
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