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From: Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: sorry man off-topic
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:32:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfwpmrn4.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7d5wo8w.fsf@zoho.eu>

Emanuel Berg writes:

> Alberto Luaces wrote:
>
>> Not a bad book, of course, but it is severely outdated; in
>> fact the wiki says that the last edition is from 1988, so
>> maybe the code in the first one doesn't even compile on
>> modern compilers due to deprecated syntax.
>>
>> I have not read "Effective C" by Robert C. Seacord, but it's
>> up to date with the latest C standards, according to
>> the description.
>
> Aren't C standards mostly concern with backward
> compatibility anyway?

For sure, but I guess it is not desirable to write new code or learn to
write it with archaic notation as k&r function declaration, not to
mention the 40 years of improvements on the language that you'd be
skipping.

-- 
Alberto



  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-25  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-22 10:35 Byung-Hee HWANG
2021-10-22 11:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2021-10-22 11:13   ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2021-10-25  7:30   ` Alberto Luaces
2021-10-25  7:35     ` Emanuel Berg
2021-10-25  8:32       ` Alberto Luaces [this message]
2021-10-25  9:11         ` Emanuel Berg
2021-10-25 11:16           ` Alberto Luaces
2021-10-25 11:51             ` Emanuel Berg
2021-10-25  7:37     ` Emanuel Berg

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