learning c/c++

[Mikemk]

I can get that.

EDIT:
Thank you.

[Kazinsal]

Awesome, enjoy it. It's a great book, even if the edition in C used in it is a bit archaic at times.

[Antti]

I struggled one night with printing decimal numbers because I wanted to figure it out by myself. Now that I know how to do that, it is simple and obvious. However, I did not have it right away. Albeit my implementation differs from this, the K&R book gives the answer. I should have read it more carefully.

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/* C Programming Language, 4.10 Recursion, page 73 */

#include <stdio.h>

/* printd: print n in decimal */
void printd(int n)
{
	if (n < 0) {
		putchar('-');
		n = -n;
	}
	if (n / 10)
		printd(n / 10);
	putchar(n % 10 + '0');
}

[Opcode]

Thanks for the link--I was a little hesitant about posting one. This book is considered by most to be the bible of the C world--as such a hard copy should be obtained if your wallet and locale permit it. Worst case is you have a nice showpiece for your bookshelf. (I would be your friend if I walked into your home and saw this on your bookshelf )

Now for my rant:

So Steve Jobs dies--media/fanboys go bonkers.

4 days later...Dennis Richie dies......
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[Griwes]

Plus, what I vtable?

That's not even a sentence.

That's *obviously* a typo, fixed now. Should've been "Plus, what is a vtable?".

[Mikemk]

Now for my rant:

So Steve Jobs dies--media/fanboys go bonkers.

4 days later...Dennis Richie dies......
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.....
.....
.....

Who is/was Dennis Richie?

[Mikemk]

Oh, I see

[Brynet-Inc]

Who is/was Dennis Richie?

Oh, I see

That was terrible.

[Mikemk]

Who is/was Dennis Richie?

Oh, I see

That was terrible.

I was being serious, no joking. I had never heard of him.

[Love4Boobies]

I would start with the second book here, the C Programming Language, 2nd ed. Feel free to look over the rest of the list.

[BMW]

I'm NOT saying that C++ is bad (it is, but I'm not saying it ). What I am saying is that C is a lot closer to assembly and a lot easier for an assembly language programmer to get used to.

Haha, I agree. Only for OS Dev though. No programming language is really useless, it just depends what you use it for.

Back in my Game Dev days, C++ was king.

[Love4Boobies]

No programming language is really useless, it just depends what you use it for.

On what grounds do you make this claim?

[Kazinsal]

No programming language is really useless, it just depends what you use it for.

On what grounds do you make this claim?

On the grounds that he has clearly never worked with Befunge or Malbolge.

[Love4Boobies]

I don't think anyone has ever been able to write a Malbolge program---not even as much as a "hello, world!" For a long time it wasn't even known which type of language it is; it was thought to be a LBA but was eventually proven to be Turing-complete.

[Kazinsal]

I don't think anyone has ever been able to write a Malbolge program---not even as much as a "hello, world!" For a long time it wasn't even known which type of language it is; it was thought to be a LBA but was eventually proven to be Turing-complete.

There are a couple simple ones, but they took years to figure out from what I know. A hello world, for example:

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('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=<M:9wv6WsU2T|nm-,jcL(I&%$#"
`CB]V?Tx<uVtT`Rpo3NlF.Jh++FdbCBA@?]!~|4XzyTT43Qsqq(Lnmkj"Fhg${z@>

Makes unmaintained, poorly-crafted x86 assembly language look like C64 BASIC.