bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown) (05/03/89)
I'm looking for material for a friend (who has no Usenet access) who is starting to learn C. He's working with the Microsoft 5.1 dialect, but any sufficiently portable material would be appreciated. Are there any texts out there that you would strongly recommend for someone with many years experience in DP with COBOL? (I know -- yuck! At least he's reforming! :-) I'd be especially interested in those electronic tutorials that run on PCs -- I know there are several PD versions that are supposed to be quite good, but I've never used them so I don't know what to look for. Thanks very much for your help! (-: Brad Brown :-) bradb@ai.toronto.edu
kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu (05/04/89)
/* Written 9:27 pm May 2, 1989 by dwilbert@bbn.com in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */ If you work on any serious product, you should consider keeping log-style files in a binary format. When I started work on my project, I had no idea it would eventually be translated into another language. /* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */ I would replace the phrase `binary format' with `convenient machine-parsable format' here. What's to keep you from maintaining the log using an ASCII representation of whatever data you're keeping in binary, but in a machine-parsable form that your front end can represent in either language as required? That allows the standard tools to be used on the log, if the user is familiar with the intermediate format. | / o Kevin Kenny (217) 333-5821 |< /) | | | |/\ Department of Computer Science o , o , | \ X_ \/ | | | University of Illinois 40 07 N 88 13 W kenny@cs.uiuc.edu 1304 W. Springfield Ave. uunet!uiucdcs!kenny Urbana, IL 61801 AD ASTRA PER ARDUA