[SlugLUG] Question on C

[Erich Blume]

Yes, I've heard of Kernighan and Ritchie. What's the best way to get a copy?
Border's downtown would probably carry it, I assume...

Erich
On 10/10/06 11:39 AM, "cerise at armory.com" <cerise at armory.com> wrote:

> This question leads me to believe that you do not own the only C programming
> book that anyone should ever buy:  Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming
> Language".
> 
> The book is written by the guys who invented the language.  In its first
> edition it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 pages.  Ritchie said
> something like "C isn't a large language and wouldn't be served well by a
> large text".
> 
> And, of course, since the book details the invention of C along with the
> development of UNIX, you get some insights there into the deal 8)
> 
> Anyway, somewhere in there, they implement a hash table in C 8)
> 
> -Phil/CERisE
> 
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:55:18AM -0700, Erich Blume wrote:
>> Problem is, while doing that, I completely forgot how to write C. I've
>> re-trained myself up to the basics, but what I really want to do now is
>> write a hash table implementation in C. I can't for the life of me figure
>> out how to get started, though. I've written a few half-hearted structs,
>> slapped down some frivolous typedefs, and even put in a few useless
>> prototypes.
>> 
>> So my question is: where can I get started for this particular project? Who
>> knows of a good resource for easy to understand implementations of hash
>> tables in C? If it's a book, that's fine, but it'd be better if you could
>> point me to a web page or something.
>> 
>> Also, something that's been bugging me is whether or not I should learn C++.
>> Ever since I learned perl, I've been reluctant to learn C++, being as more
>> or less the only time I ever plan on writing compiled code now will be to
>> optimize. I'd rather optimize in C than C++. But I've been doing a lot of
>> reading and it sounds like maybe that wasn't such a good appraisal. From the
>> context of a computational biologist, what's the safer bet?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Erich 
>> 
>> 
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