Re:Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide
by icedchai on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:02PM
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I taught myself C from K&R 2, and a platform-specific (Amiga!) book, back when I was a teenager. In three decades, not much has really changed with the core language.
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Re:Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide
by jamal-kumar on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:43AM
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While the core language has stayed the same the tooling and development environment has changed quite a lot. Proper modern compiler flags (-Wall etc) for example would be a huge help to new learners and for best practices, but k&r isn't mentioning these. I still think it's a good book but if you throw it at someone new to this they're going to be wondering why what they are writing isn't behaving as expected.