Can we please get c++ involved in the discussion, it runs circles around C on all levels.. On 12/21/10, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/21/10 1:46 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:46 PM, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> I am not a programmer, but I wanted the answer you seem to want. How >> does the damn thing work? More explicitly: >> >> How does human understandable information get converted by a machine >> into electrical data; then store it; may or may not, transform, >> compare, >> and/or relocate the data; and then re-present the data as information >> meaningful to humans? >> >> I found the answer in "The C Programming Language" by Brian W. >> Kernighan >> and Dennis M. Ritchie. This book is such a basic that it is often >> referred to just as K&R. If you try to simply use this book as a >> tutorial for the C language it is too difficult. Almost every >> sentence >> contains a new concept. But K&R and 'C' are closest to the metal. >> It's >> description and particularly its appendices are used by programmers >> mainly as a reference. It really is a text on how to best write >> code so >> that the compiler can use your 'C' code by translating it into machine >> language. It is also, therefore, basic instructions for compiler >> writers >> on how they have writer their compilers. >> >> >> >> Sure, how to get this book? Is it available online somewhere? > Not legally, anywhere. However, the Second Edition is available from > Amazon and other book retailers. It is not very expensive. It would > cost me more to mail you the extra copy I have to you than it would be > to buy it (even in the United States.) > > James McKenzie > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- Sent from my mobile device -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
