On 2024-01-22, nelgin <EOTLBBS!nelgin@vert.synchro.net> wrote:
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> Re: Taking a community colleg
> By: Digital Man to Nopants on Sat Jan 20 2024 13:53:44
>
> > Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++. The languages have diverged and
> > re-converged a bit over the years (and versions of their standards), but
> > yeah, almost any experienced C++ programmer can program in C, though they
> > often groan about it. :-)
>
> I think the thing that put me off learning C is the 1001 different compile opt
ions for gcc. If you're going to be working on more portable open source project
s then there's a whole subset of stuff you problem need to know like the autocon
f tools and the like.
>
> The code will run faster but I'm happy just to rip off a bit of perl and be do
ne with it. no compilation, no makes files.
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You can be fine with ANSI C, The C programming language 2nd ED and tcc for
most software from https://codemadness.org , git://bitreich.org and https://2f30
.org
These are tons of small minimalist tools for anything. I love sacc for gopher
and catpoint/pointtools. And hurl it's my default http/s and gopher downloader
with a little script to download files per arg with 'basename'.
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