[oclug] C Tutorials

[John Gluck]

Hi Dave

The old K&R style C is what I cut my C programming teeth on in the early
80's.
It allows all sorts of nasty things that ANSI doesn't.
In K&R you don't need prototypes, the compiler does not check that you are
calling a function with the correct number of parameters or that they of the
correct type.

I would not recommend using K&R for doing development. Knowing it is ok
since you may run into some very old code.

All that said, I think a good book is probably the best way to start.

John


Dave Edwards wrote:

> Hey Gang,
>
> Does anyone know of any good online ANSI C language tutorials?   In a
> thorough search, I downloaded two ( www.strath.ac.uk ,  and bwk-tutor )
> and dicovered that they deal with K&R C, rather than ANSI C (bwk-tutor is
> an introduction by Kernhigan himself, and dates from 1974).  Will I be
> lead too far off the beaten path by studying K&R C?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
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