A89: Re: Re: tigcc - some REAL routines this time
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A89: Re: Re: tigcc - some REAL routines this time
I too have read this famed book and disagree with you. It is not an
introduction for programming C, it is an introduction to _implementing_ C.
A good read for programmers as well, but its main purpose, and that of its
forerunner, (1st edition) was to explain what C was supposed to do, and how
it should be done.
--kaus
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Noveck <noveck@pluto.njcc.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 1:07 PM
Subject: A89: Re: tigcc - some REAL routines this time
>
> > Sure it will. /= divides num by ten and then returns num. So it keeps
> going
> > while num!=0.
>
> BTW, has anyone here read _The C Programming Language, Second Edition_, by
> Kernighan and Ritchie (the creators of C)? It's usually refered to as
K&RC2
> and supposedly an introductory book on C - but it starts wacky
optimizations
> like that without mentioning such crucial facts as HOW it works in just
the
> first chapter. A _great_ reference, but it relies on the reader having
> programmed other languages before and goes into some concepts like
compiler
> design and context-free grammars which most people who haven't taken
formal
> courses won't know. . .
>
> -Scott
>
>
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