John Zenger wrote: > Your message makes me sad, as if I heard someone say "never read a book > without a specific inducement; if you know someone is going to ask you > about the book, start reading it today, but if you don't know what you > are going to use the book for, reading it will be a waste of time."
Ah. I wasn't actually talking about reading a C book. I was talking about learning the programming language. You should, of course, read a book about C - but I don't believe you can learn to program C by just reading a book (or any other programming language, for that matter). You will read the book, and might be able to *read* C programs afterwards. To be able to write them, you need practice, and, for that, you need a specific inducement. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
