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Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!emory!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!brockman From: brockman@netcom.com (daniel brockman) Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books Message-ID: <brockmanDE7syo.MFH@netcom.com> Organization: Life, Liberty, Love, Money and Art References: <40b4i2$egf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <brockmanDDLJDL.2IJ@netcom.com> <MICHAELV.95Aug21215230@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 07:03:59 GMT Lines: 33 Sender: brockman@netcom13.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.jobs.offered:198317 comp.lang.c:111263 comp.lang.c++:121816 comp.object:31085 comp.lang.eiffel:9048 alt.syntax.tactical:933 comp.lang.misc:17167 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:149 In article <MICHAELV.95Aug21215230@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In article <brockmanDDLJDL.2IJ@netcom.com> brockman@netcom.com (daniel brockman) writes: > > > [...] > >ks, are these good? Thanks. Ooops, one more thing, should I even > >bother to learn C? > > perhaps for archaeological interest. its dead, though. > >It is??? All us programmers at Microsoft, writing millions of lines >of brand new C and C++ code for new commercial software, which >millions of dollars of potential money are staked on, must certainly >have missed the announcement! Thanks for enlightening me... I'll let >my boss know right away to go back and search the archives for that >news, so we can get our development efforts back on track! Yep, C is dead. The C++ zealots dominate now. Don't bother searching the archives. The announcement was mine. You saw it and replied to it. Incidentally, every day people are writing many many (maybe millions) of lines of brand new COBOL code ... millions of dollars of real money staked on it. Pick up a copy of the San Jose Mercury Sunday want ads and look at all the jobs that want COBOL experience. Incidentally, that new C++ code you are writing up by the millions of lines -- How big is the run code? If I install 32 million bytes more memory in my machine, will I be able to run it? db -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Brockman San Francisco brockman@netcom.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------