>>printf("\n");
>>has more characters than
>>echo ""
>>plus compilation. Not to say it's a _bad_ method, though.
Yes, but the C version prints nothing _so_ much faster...
main() {prinf("doh!\n")}
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:42 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Wanting to learn C - book suggestions?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> Ken Elliott wrote:
> > It's old, but "C Primer +" (Waite Group - Sams) was pretty darn
> > good. And a good read...
> >
> > But I'll bet someone tosses in something written this century...
>
> I'll second this...
>
> One thing I did was to convert all my scripts, no matter how
> rudimentary into C. Not practical at all, but it forced me to learn
> simple things like file access, text handling, etc..
True, and it should discourage some bad programming habits. It rather slows
down debugging, doesn't it? I mean,
printf("\n");
has more characters than
echo ""
plus compilation. Not to say it's a _bad_ method, though.
--
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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not is a slave. -Sir William Drummond
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