Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!quintus!ok
From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What's a good textbook?
Message-ID: <548@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 23:11:39 GMT
References: <523@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <5260006@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 14
Summary: good book, wrong language

In article <5260006@hplsla.HP.COM>, jima@hplsla.HP.COM (jim adcock ) writes:
> IFF your friend is serious about math, and serious about programming, I
> might (cautiously) recommend "The C++ Programming Language" 
> by Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison-Wesley 1986.

That's a fine book.  I have it.  I haven't got a C++ compiler.
The friend of a friend who wants to learn C hasn't got a C++
compiler, and doesn't want to learn C++.  He wants to learn C.
If you don't already know C, the C++ book is incomprehensible.

I've had about four serious responses to my request so far.  Thanks.
I'll wait another week and summarise to the net.  By the way, it
really was for a friend of a friend.  I learned C from K&R, which I
personally think is an improvement on most of its successors.