Re: C Programming

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On the contrary -- it's written in clear, simple language without much
distraction, and explains the C language better than any other book I've
seen.
Look this is silly. The book mentioned above is the definitive reference
book on C but it is not a book from which to learn to program in C.

It's a small volume, but the back part is reference and the first part is
instructional.

Try learning to program in Python from the Python Language Reference
Manual.

Talk about silly.

It's a _very_ different book from the Python Language Reference Manual.

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