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Re:We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need ... by zozbot234 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @02:09PM (#22028414)
The C "boot camp" is called K&R (plus a plain Linux development environment). Plenty of devs have gotten started with just that, and in around the same time.
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Re:We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need ... by Daishiman on Sunday January 12, 2020 @03:02PM (#22028822)
The problem with K&R is that is useless for building actual, working C applications. Even being up to date with the language's specs means very little as getting every different library up and running in each platform is a fairly high barrier, much more so than other platforms.
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Re:We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need ... by pjc50 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:16PM (#22029447)
The companion Kernighan and Pike is very good on building full Unix command line utilities. But yes, the platform learning process of getting to hello world can be remarkably hard.
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Re:We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need ... by codeisawesome on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:55PM (#22082378)
I never thought of "The UNIX Programming Environment" and "The C Programming Language" as companion books. Thanks for opening my eyes to that.
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