C++ Compiling Problems
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Mon May 23 14:45:19 UTC 2005
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > PS: if you want a book on C instead of C++, don't bother with
> anything but
> > the original book by the language's creators: C Programming Language by
> > Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. As I said before, C is an
> elegant and
> > small language, and this book is all you need. (Although you
> may also want
> > to pick up The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and Rob Pike.)
> >
>
> K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn.
This statement is false. As a matter of fact if you use the programming
methodology in this book, you're good to go on any true ANSI C compiler,
which includes gcc...
Directly from http://www.gnu.org about gcc: "The GNU Compiler Collection is
a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C"
>
> There are altogether too many mistakes a C programmer can make that will
> give rise to all sorts of program bugs including buffer overruns,
> pointer overruns and underruns and many more.
Learn how to use the appropriate libraries/functions that limit the number
of input characters and buffer overruns are no issue.
>
> There are uses for C; it was originally designed for programming
> operating systems and such, and really is not well-suited at a
> general-purpose programming language.
This is false. Read more about it here:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html.
>
> The act you _can_ write almost any program you can conceive in C doesn't
> mean you should do so.
This is true, but it depends on what you intend to do with the language. I
don't know of any C based languages that can outperform C for computational
based programming.
>
> C doesn't do strings.
This is false. Read the "string.h" library. It's specifically written to
handle strings.
> C doesn't do fixed-point.
I don't know what is meant by this. If it means floating point, again this
is incorrect. C is capable of performing computations with integers,
floats, and doubles. What else is there?
> Both are needed in business applications.
>
> C++ is another matter altogether, and provided programmers use the C++
> features, code written in C++ is likely to be more reliable than
> equivalent code written by equivalently-capable C programmers.
If you want to learn an easy OOP then Java or C# are the best place to
start. The foundations of all of the languages C++, Java, and C# are based
on C.
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