The fist language i ever learnt more than 10 years ago in 8th grade.
Poll: Do you know C?
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#162I wish more languages had books equivalent to K&R. Here's how I learned C. 1. Buy K&R. 2. Read it. Maybe 2 or 3 times during the process of reading it, I would go write a program to try what I had just learned. This was was around 1980, so trying a program meant walking across campus to a terminal. I could either head to the computing center and use a public terminal, or to the high energy physics building (where I h…
I spent more than a decade (from the age of about 10) learning to program from a wide variety of books, about a variety of languages. I'd written software in Basic, Pascal, C, Amiga E, ARexx, and assembly. It wasn't until I read K&R in my mid-20s that it all actually started making sense (especially C, but everything made more sense after K&R). Up to that point, I'd been copy-paste programming, imitating, etc. K&R is…
Amiga E was one of the first programming languages I tried to learn. I had started with Apple BASIC, and happened to get a free Amiga E compiler and booklet on some Amiga magazine. The booklet left a lot to be desired; specifically, it showed how to do output but not input, and as a clueless novice BASIC programmer, I naively assumed that Amiga E could not do input.
I did not write much of interest using Amiga E, and that booklet was nowhere near as useful as K&R.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok kadbid, I am intrigued. what's the story? Why didn't you make the transition to other languages? Why didn't you make the transition into management? I'm not questioning your decisions, just curious.
Who says I only know C? I've been learning and using new languages for over 30 years; I won't bore you with a list. (Smalltalk is one of my favorites, but I'll never ship a product in it. But I know a lot about dynamic language implementation). C just happens to be the right choice for most of my projects today (I half seriously proposed FORTH for one before my cow-orkers threatened me with a dunking). Let's make a d…
I can't resist pointing out that you did not in fact prove any such thing... :-)
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#164My first full time software job, was writing C for PSION Workabout terminals. They had 2MB ram and their own custom plib for system access that ran more efficient than using clib functions.
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#165Polls != me, ever. I chose the second answer because it is the closest, but.... I haven't really used C in years, but I can start programming in C anytime and get operative, robust (I'm a freak about error handling and knowing where lie the exceptions) code quickly and cleanly. These days I dabble in Javascript, higher order perl, and am trying to grok Haskell, but I think in C. To my simultaneous benefit and detrime…
I agree with you Peter. I came to C after a decade using Pascal (assembly, "systems" languages before that). It was like going from programming in a straitjacket to running shorts and a T shirt. The freedom was wonderful. And programming in C is like learning to ride a bicycle. You never forget. My first love.
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#166I learnt C programming Quake 2 modifications, picked up C++ at university and haven't used it since.
Re: Poll: Do you know C?
#167I wish more languages had books equivalent to K&R. Here's how I learned C. 1. Buy K&R. 2. Read it. Maybe 2 or 3 times during the process of reading it, I would go write a program to try what I had just learned. This was was around 1980, so trying a program meant walking across campus to a terminal. I could either head to the computing center and use a public terminal, or to the high energy physics building (where I h…
I program primarily in C and believe I know all there is to know about it. But I have never read K&R. A few weeks back, I started reading it, got bored and gave up. But I keep running into people who swear by K&R. Do you guys think it is worth a read after the fact?
Maybe not. If you're at that level, consider reading "The Standard C Library" by Plauger. I used it as a reference for updating a non-compliant library to be mostly compliant. I gained a better understanding of why the standard C library is the way it is, and learned how to implement all of it.
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#170+1 to the non-existent poll entry that says: "I know C thoroughly, though I barely ever use it these days. I used it for so long and during such a formative period of my overall programming career that I can read/write C code with virtually no spin-up time even though I find myself touching C code very rarely. Oh, and btw, when I find myself coding C on a nix box, I am still amused at how I have muscle memory for all…
I know C thoroughly. It is either my main or best-known language. I hardly ever use it anymore.