[net.lang.c] Guidelines on C Programming: Style, standards, recommend...

cew@isi-hobgoblin.arpa (Craig E. Ward) (07/11/85)

Just about any college textbook on intermediate or advanced programming
will have a couple of chapters on style and coding practice.  The last
book I had was

	Advanced Programing and Problem Solving with PASCAL
	G. M. Schneider, S. C. Bruell
	John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1981

Even though the book is based on Pascal, 99% of what it says on style
applies to C (and any other language for that matter) also.

		Craig

bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews) (07/13/85)

I am surprised no one has mentioned "The Elements of Programming Style",
by Kernighan and Plauger.  It is an EXCELLENT book; I wish the world would
read (and abide by) it.

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jeff@gatech.CSNET (Jeff Lee) (07/16/85)

> Just about any college textbook on intermediate or advanced programming
> will have a couple of chapters on style and coding practice.  The last
> book I had was

A book that was recommended reading for a programming class that I
took (about 6 years ago) was "Elements of Programming Style" by
Kernigan and Plauger. They used mostly PL/I examples in it but
they emphasized that this could be applied to any language.

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Jeff Lee
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