Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
In memorial, I decided to leaf thru my K&R. But apparently, it has disappeared. I spent close to a decade coding in C. What I remember best was cursing it (or a particular implementation) usually after a stupid error on my part. At the same time it was a significant improvement over assembler programming which was standard for many applications at the time.
K&R was my favorite book on C. I still have it on a shelf in the basement. As my tribute, I'll move it to an upstairs' shelf now. Coding in C after assembler was strange but Ritchie made it much easier. It was sad losing both Jobs and Ritchie in a space of a single week.
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In memorial, I decided to leaf thru my K&R. But apparently, it has disappeared. I spent close to a decade coding in C. What I remember best was cursing it (or a particular implementation) usually after a stupid error on my part. At the same time it was a significant improvement over assembler programming which was standard for many applications at the time.
I learned C pretty early on from K&R and it w only after reading many other programming books that I really appreciated its conciseness.
Also, my favorite comment so far is that to "like" Pike's post on Google+ the button, rather than +1, should be ++.
K&R was my favorite book on C. I still have it on a shelf in the basement. As my tribute, I'll move it to an upstairs' shelf now. Coding in C after assembler was strange but Ritchie made it much easier.
It was sad losing both Jobs and Ritchie in a space of a single week.
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