At 10:44 12/21/98 -0800, Ed VanderPloeg wrote:
>Ok, ok, you got me there.  If you're only ever going to program PICs or
>equivalents, learning full ANSI-C may not be necessary.  Silly me, I
>understood Laurence's question to be more general.

i think we agree that learning C means learning ANSI C, and that any useful
book on the subject is based on the standard.

but -- for getting actual work done, it is usually more important to know
how your compiler defines int than to know whether this is ANSI compliant
or not (unless portability is an issue -- but in this case it is not a good
idea anyway to use the built-in standard types like int).

>(I sometimes build my code on a PC as a NT console app, for the sake of
>testing state machines, string parsing, math, etc.).

useful and one of these places where you better not use the ANSI types like
int.

ge