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- From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What C is best for me!?
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- References: <7u-1Hl6cxa@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:58:35 EST
- Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
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- In article <7u-1Hl6cxa@atlantis.psu.edu> KRC@ECLX.PSU.EDU (Keith R. Connors) writes:
- >Hi all....
- >
- >I'm wondering what C programming system I should use....please help me out...
- >
- >I'm planning to learn C over the Christmas holidays, and rather than download
- >all of the environments for the Amiga, sift thru them, and then still not know
- >which route is best for me.
-
- You'll be able to scratch the surface over the Christmas holidays, not
- much more. C has a steep learning curve. Once you've learned C you still
- have to learn how to use the libraries that apply to the computer system for
- which you're programming.
-
- >I have programming experience in FORTRAN, Pascal, BASIC, and Assembly on
- >various platforms, however, I have never programmed in any of them on the
- >Amiga.
-
- If you're going to write portable C programs that will run easily on any
- platform with a C compiler your lack of Amiga programming experience won't
- be a handicap. If you want to do anything interesting and take advantage of
- the Amiga's features be prepared for a long and frustrating period of
- learning strange and new concepts and techniques.
-
- >I'm looking for a environment that is well documented, and includes numerous
- >examples, so that ideally I won't *have* to buy a book on C. (I probably
-
- You'll have to buy a book on C. There's just no getting around it. When
- I bought my first computer I learned to program it in BASIC from the
- reference manual that came with it. Those days are gone. Modern
- programming systems are too complicated and you just don't get that kind of
- documentation with the compilers. Save yourself some time at the beginning
- and buy "The C Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
- You might want to buy a couple of other books on C just for good measure.
-
- > A500 - 1/2 Meg Chip, 2 1/2 Meh Fast
- > Workbench 1.3
- > GVP Impact Series II 52 Meg
-
- You have sufficient resources to run either DICE, SAS C or Manx C with no
- problems. You might be a little tight running gcc or any of the C++
- implementations. I don't know.
-
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