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Re: Learn C
>that's what I need to learn
Wrong. What you need to learn is ANSI C. The linux C compiler is GCC and
it understands both K&R and ANSI. The machines that do not (natively)
understand ANSI C are SUNs. The SUN C compiler only understands K&R C.
Because of that lots of people use GCC on a SUN (VBG).
The next steps after C are ANSI C++ (also with GCC) and JavaScript and
Java which are closely related (in appearence) to C++.
Out of line: Perl is most related to shell programming under Linux so it's
best if you get some working knowledge about shell programming and then
learn Perl. I hope that I anticiapted it right :)
Anyway learning C is not exactly fast. The number of commands to learn and
apply are staggering (3 figures for the basic libraries alone).
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> Amos Shapira wrote:
> >
> > Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > Well, people no longer use it because most C compilers understand ANSI C
> > > perfectly, and it has a superior syntax. However, you can find some old
> > > UNIX programs written in K&R or partly K&R style,and perhaps some native
> > > compilers on older OSes still understand it alone.
>
> >
> > Did the original poster really refered to K&R syntax?
> >
> Well i did relay meant to K&R but just because someone told me that if i
> want to start with C on linux that what i need to learn.
>
> Any suggestion will be gladly accepted
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