http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/...
Moreover, you aren't likely to be able to write any meaningful code without cruft, because you'll have to use existing libraries, where that cruft lives.
Giving you a reference to writing C properly--something most folks still don't do--is actually somewhat helpful as opposed to pure snark.
Does C++ have a fixed ABI yet? Is there a fixed name-mangling scheme across compilers? How do I bind other languages to the lambdas?
> Does C++ have a fixed ABI yet? Is there a fixed name-mangling scheme across compilers? How do I bind other languages to the lambdas?
Pretty useless for the purpose of my question. I was asking a simple question, your just in it to spread snark.
1) The original edition was one of my favorite books and what I used to learn C back in the day.