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From:         dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.COM (Gillett, David)
Subject:      Re: Programming in J
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no. 5718414 filed 22.03.03  wed 13 nov 1991
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ref  5717821

     I recall the first time I tried to learn C.  It was around 1976-7, and K&R
was all that there was.  ("The C Programming Language", by Kernighan and
Ritchie.  A second edition describes the language as standardized by ANSI.)
     Major concepts of the language consistently eluded me.  I gave up in
disgust, and didn't look at it again for 3-4 years.  But I did learn a heck of
a lot in those years, and when I came back to C it all made a great deal of
sense.
     Would an "Introduction to C for FORTRAN Programmers" have helped me?  I
don't think so; the concepts that I needed went much deeper than the syntactic
differences between C and FORTRAN.
                                      Dave Gillett


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