Re: C syntax errors

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2. Re: C syntax errors (Aaron Albertson)
3. Re: C syntax errors (James Rich)
4. Re: C syntax errors (Mark S Waterbury)
5. Re: C syntax errors (Narayanan Pillai)
6. Re: C syntax errors (Scott Klement)
7. Re: C syntax errors (Clay Carley)

Yes I am using the The C programming Language By Brian W. Kernighan and
Dennis M. Ritchie.
Published by Prentice-Hall in 1988. This I found quite good as a starter.
Any recommendation on a better book?

Thanks to all of you. I was about to give up on C.
I am motivated to try again. I have never met any of you but I have to say
'Ah its good to have friends'.

date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:13:16 -0600
from: Scott Klement <c400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [C400-L] C syntax errors

Not to mention that it uses global variables (and even extern variables)
throughout instead of parameters...

Absolutely horrible code. Definitely not to be used as an example!.


On 1/17/2014 5:47 PM, James Rich wrote:

On Sat, 18 Jan 2014, frank kolmann wrote:

Presumable it has compiled elsewhere.

http://www.c-program-example.com/2012/02/k-r-c-programs-exercise-5-20.html

As already mentioned, this appears to be bad code. Right away, the

double

slashes aren't valid for start of comment in plain C (but are valid in

C++

and other languages). Other bad code jumps out in the dcl(void) function
with these two statements: