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 | | The Standard C Library by P. J. Plauger ISBN-10: 9780138380120 ISBN-10: 0-13-838012-0 ISBN-13: 9780138380120 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-838012-0 Hardcover 1991-04 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Prentice Hall's most important C programming title in years. A companion volume to Kernighan & Ritchie's C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. A collection of reusable functions (code for building data structures, code for performing math functions and scientific calculations, etc.) which will save C programmers time and money especially when working on large programming projects. The C Library is part of the ANSI (American National Standard Institute) for the C Language. This new book contains the complete code for the library. It covers elements of the library with which even the most experienced C programmers are not familiar such as internationalization (the ability to write programs that can adapt to different cultural locales, for example, using the C library, programmers can write software that manipulates large character sets such as Kanji). Structured like the Standard C Library, it contains 15 headers declaring or defining all of the names in the library. A separate chapter covers each header, including excerpts from relevant portions of the C Standard showing all codes needed to implement each portion of the library and explaining why it is necessary. The book teaches readers the concepts and design issues associated with library building. Using this book, programemrs will be less likely to re-code something that already exists in a given program. Plauger is one of the world's leading experts on C and the C Library. | ||
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A Fantastic Resource! Essential for C programmers who want to use as many library functions as possible to avoid reinventing the wheel. A must have. | ||
A real programmer! People sometimes make jokes about people who call them self's real programmers (and vise versa). But this is a book that a real programmer will have on their bookshelf as reference material, along with their copy of "The C++ Programming Language" and others. I have not referred to this book in years, but I have never regretted the purchase. It is rare that someone who probably wrote the library that you are using writes a book on it. So even though it is very technical, it is a must have for anyone who wishes to meet the same standards as "The Standard". | ||
bad book This is a bad book. The print is in small font. The book is cryptic to follow. I only read the first few chapters than I had to stop. I did not like this book. | ||
Very nice about Standard C Library implementation First of all (also metioned by other reviewers), the layout of this book is horror. Everything is printed behind each other (not very much whitespace). This book is a nice reference, but maybe you can better use Internet nowadays. What make this book really nice, is that it offers implementations for the standard C library. So if you're looking for a implementation for sqrt/sin/tan/printf/etc. you will find it in this book. This is a really nice way to get some insight how an implementation of a Standard C Library could work. | ||
Faster than the internet The print is smudgy, and a lot of the real estate is devoted to reprinting the ANSI standard, but I would rather look up library calls in a book than the COMPUNET. Also, I thought the comments on the design of the library were very interesting. A little historical perspective never hurt anybody! | ||