Subj : Re: Taking a community colleg To : All From : anthk Date : Sat Mar 22 2025 02:32:11 On 2024-01-22, nelgin wrote: > > Re: Taking a community colleg > By: Digital Man to Nopants on Sat Jan 20 2024 13:53:44 > > > Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++. The languages have diverged and > > re-converged a bit over the years (and versions of their standards), but > > yeah, almost any experienced C++ programmer can program in C, though they > > often groan about it. :-) > > I think the thing that put me off learning C is the 1001 different compile options for gcc. If you're going to be working on more portable open source projects then there's a whole subset of stuff you problem need to know like the autoconf tools and the like. > > The code will run faster but I'm happy just to rip off a bit of perl and be done with it. no compilation, no makes files. > > --- > ■ Synchronet ■ End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com You can be fine with ANSI C, The C programming language 2nd ED and tcc for most software from https://codemadness.org , git://bitreich.org and https://2f30.org These are tons of small minimalist tools for anything. I love sacc for gopher and catpoint/pointtools. And hurl it's my default http/s and gopher downloader with a little script to download files per arg with 'basename'. --- ￭ Synchronet ￭ Vertrauen ￭ Home of Synchronet ￭ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net .