C: A Reference Manual (4th Edition) - Softcover

Samuel P. Harbison III; Guy L. Steele Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133262243 ISBN 13: 9780133262247

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1994

Synopsis

A new and improved revision of the bestselling C language reference. This essential manual introduces the notion of "Clean C," writing C code that can be compiled as a C++ program, and incorporates the ISO C Amendment 1 (1994) which specifies new facilities for writing portable, international programs in C.

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Review:

You can find bigger books about C, but you won't find one as authoritative or helpful as this reference manual. Harbison and Steele have now gone through four editions and are beginning to cover language differences which can surprise the experienced C coder moving to C++. As always, the authors do an excellent job of explaining what's standard and what it replaces. No hairy syntax has been omitted, so this volume can make wending one's way through obfuscated code, if not pleasant, at least less miserable. Whether you learned C from Kernighan or some massive tome, you'll want this volume as your day-to-day reference. And you won't mind buying a new edition once in a while, because you'll have worn the old one out by then.

From the Publisher:

This fourth edition of the bestselling C reference covers two important developments: the ISO C Amendment 1 (1994), which specifies new facilities for writing portable, international programs in C; and a discussion of how to write C programs that are compatible with C++.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0133262243
• ISBN 13: 9780133262247
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 480