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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: a secular response to the religious conflict
Message-ID: <7109@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:24:26 GMT
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In article <4624@idunno.Princeton.EDU> rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) writes:
->
->Well, Doug has a reputation as a computer person so maybe they won't
->take him seriously. I have a PhD in astrophysics, so I count as a 
->scientist and I echo:
->
->   Kernighan and Ritchie is the best book to learn C from if you have
->appreciable computer experience. 

Agreed.  Use K&R second edition  (from a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry).

-- 
Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
doug@jhuvms.bitnet, doug@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu, mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug 
Like many of the features of UNIX, UUCP appears theoretically 
unworkable... - DEC Professional, April 1990