Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-21 Thread Julian Gilbey
Here's a practical example of writing, compiling and executing a piece of C code on a Debian system: /tmp/myhello.c == #include int main() { printf("Hello world!\n"); return 0; } Comiling and running /tmp$ gcc -o myhello myhello.c /tmp$ ./myhello Hello worl

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Jan 1999, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I didn't really mean that to sound like it did. Maybe I've been scarred for life by trying to tutor second-year computer science students in C, especially with linked lists, and strings that take up one more b

Re: off topic/learning C [Long]

1999-01-21 Thread Christopher Cashell
Unidentified Flying Banana, code named ktb, wrote: >Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for >advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for >Linux. The language I chose was C. A most excellent choice. I personally think C is prolly the best over a

RE: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, > > Kent > > There's the newsgroup comp.lang.c, but I've never been inside there, so I > don't > know what its like. It's pretty good, though not reading the FAQ may well get you flamed. > I'm quite willing to answer C questions in pri

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 20 Jan 1999, Carey Evans wrote: > Are you *sure* you want to learn C? Why not take Eric Raymond's > advice at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html> and > learn Python? It's an easier language, the newsgroup > "comp.lang.python" isn't very busy, and it's useful on Mac on Win32 > *

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for > advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for > Linux. The language I chose was C. The book to learn from, "Practical > C Programming" O'reilly. Well I tried to make my first program "Hello > World" fo

RE: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread jmlb2
On 19-Jan-99 ktb wrote: > Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for > advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for > Linux. The language I chose was C. The book to learn from, "Practical > C Programming" O'reilly. Well I tried to make my first pr

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread Carey Evans
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for > advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for > Linux. The language I chose was C. Debian-mentors isn't the right list for this either. Are you *sure* you want to learn C? W

off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread ktb
Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for Linux. The language I chose was C. The book to learn from, "Practical C Programming" O'reilly. Well I tried to make my first program "Hello World" following the