Re: rotflmao

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:12:38AM -0800, Michael Hall was heard to say:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:09:00AM -0800, Brad Beck wrote:
> 
> > Nice dancing penguin guys. Btw, great job on the latest updates. Now if
> > I could just sit myself down and teach myself C.....
> 
>   You and me both. I know this is a bit off-topic but since most of you 
> here appear to be programmers could somebody recommend a good 'C' book.
> I had Pascal (lot of good that does these days :-) in college years ago
> but would like to pick up 'C'. I am somewhat familiar with general 
> programming principles, etc. but as far as 'C' goes I'm at the beginner
> stage.
> 

  Well, you could write Pascal bindings for GTK+ and Gnome. ;-)

  I think the book I used to learn the C languages after using mostly Pascal
(a year ago!) was called "Mastering C/C++"; it was extremely useful for me
specifically because it assumed you were reasonably familiar with how to
program in another language and just explained the differences between Pascal
and C++.  It's [mainly] a matter of learning to map 'if x then' -> 'if(x)',
'begin' -> '{', 'end' -> '}', etc.  The only real horror is remembering how
equal signs work between C and Pascal. :-)

  Daniel

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