On 27.09.94 Joey Snell wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

JS>  >> I'm interested in learning the C programming language.
JS>  >> I would like to learn it using an OS/2 compiler if at all
JS>  >> possible.
JS> 
JS>  JdBP>   Borland C++ is the cheapest commercial one and the one that
JS>  JdBP> holds your
JS>  JdBP>   hand the most.

I've just bought myself Watcom c/c++ 10.0. Though it's by far not as
comfortable as the Borland products I think it's much better value for
your money (they sell it for about half the price until end 10/94).
You got all tools for compiling under and for all common PC platforms.
It's said to produce much better code. You learn more about how a
c/c++ compiler works (this IS an important point for [Turbo-] Pascal
programmers). If you want to learn even more and / or you're short
on money the GNU compilers are a real good alternative. They're free
and they work almost exactly like c compilers under UNIX. They got no
Ide but I never missed this for OS/2 offers all I need anyway (EPM
and Macros).

JS>  JdBP>   _The_C_Programming_Language_ (2nd Edition) by Kernighan and
JS>  JdBP> Ritchie,
JS>  JdBP>   AKA the Bible.  (-:
JS> 
JS> :)  I have heard that it is quite technical.  Time to run down to BookStop
JS> and see what they have in that department.

To be honest I haven't yet found a book I could recommend. After all I'd
suggest you get a good reference (Harbison-Steele is not bad) and try to
find simple example programs in c you can analyze. There are converters
like "pascal to c" or "fortran to c" you could use to
convert your old
programs to c and find out how to do this or that in c (They're all free
and use the EMX environment on wich GNU-C bases). Maybe you might also
take a look at "Software engineering in C" by I don't know whom - it's
easy to read and it's got plenty of examples.


 
 Martin                    _______/|/|
"Herbert"                    (__) \|\|


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