Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!ken From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Suggestions of beginner C books? Message-ID: <22133@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 3 Jun 91 21:48:30 GMT References: <1991Jun2.214716.696@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <91154.103753UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) Distribution: usa Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 In article <91154.103753UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes: > >Finally, I bought the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries >and Devices, Addison-Wesley, 1990. > >All the other books were a waste, compared to this one... Just wait until you see the 2.0 manuals. No, they're not done yet, but I can tell you from personal experience that the Intuition chapters have undergone a major facelift. However, you may not like the change. Gone are all the sentences like "Intuition gazes deeply into the essence of every event it sees." Gone are the style notes from Jimm and RJ (boy is Peter mad, he never got his 15 minutes of fame! :-) The examples have also been re-done, hopefully they're more readable (depends on how you like your braces.) One final note: In general these will not be compatibility guides. The new manuals show how to do things the 2.0 way. If you are interested in programming under 1.3 or being compatible with 1.3, you might want the current set of RKMs as well. (Oh, great, Addison Wesley will love me. What a plug!) -- -- Ken Farinsky - CATS - (215) 431-9421 - Commodore Business Machines uucp: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com or ...{uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!ken bix: kfarinsky