Re: K&R2 Still good?

On Oct 6, 11:55 pm, santosh <santosh....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rajiv.batt...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hey everyone,

I am a Java programmer, somewhere between novice to advanced. I wanted
to know if it is still recommended to read "The C Programming
Language" 2nd Edition? This edition was released in 1988, it is now
2007, almost 20 years. Also, since it is so old, is there some
supplemental tutorial recommend to go along with it? Thanks for your
advice.

The book remains an excellent introduction to C. Keep in mind that C99
hasn't yet been implemented completely and widely and probably never
will. After you go through K&R2, and do all the exercises, you'll be
proficient enough to read and understand the Standard itself, (or a
draft of it), and work out the details of C99 and it's extras.

Here are some resources:

Books:
======

1. The C Programming Language Second Edition by Kernighan and Ritchie
2. C: A Reference Manual by Harbison and Steele
3. C Unleashed by Heathfield, Kirby et al.
4. Expert C Programming by Peter Van der Linden

Online tutorials:
=================

Steve Summit's C notes:
<http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/>

Tom Torf's C resources:
<http://cprog.tomsweb.net/>

Also Steve Summit maintains the very useful C FAQ:
<http://www.c-faq.com/>

There's also a clc "wiki":
<http://clc-wiki.net/>

Other resources include:

<http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/>
<http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/>
<http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/>
<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/>
<http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/cbook.html>
<http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/index.php>

Thanks for the resources, I have seen Steve Summit's FAQ but not the
notes or any of the other great links. Had a question, if C99 is a
standard why don't compilers implement it? Is it because it's features
are hard to implement?

.

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