Richard Stallman Announces GNU C Language Reference Manual
Nice, we'll see what the fat fuck comes up with
Doesn't this already exist?
gnu.org
GNU documentation suck
too verbose and not professional
t. hardcore Emacs user
>Initial
>3 days ago
>Richard Stallman
>-0/+29573
autism
nice larp, GNU documentation is the best out there
I WISH other projects had the level of documentation GNU projects have. every language implemented by GNU comes with a complete manual describing the entire language plus it's easily available and searchable via emacs and web
but they don't have a site with fancy navigations and such :(
how to read texi files? wtf is this?
>return type on its own line
>space before parameter list
>two-space indents
>curly braces omitted
>recursion
>inefficient recursion to boot
>aimed at a mathematical audience
>could be translated to idiomatic Lisp line-by-line
Classic GNU, brings a tear to my eye
KINO
with the web browser, a pdf viewer, an info program or emacs, or just print it out fagget
git clone git.savannah.gnu.org
cd c-intro-and-ref
pdftex c.texi
then you open the c.pdf
It takes until chapter 2 to show a runnable program and until 2.4 to explain what a compiler is btw
PDF file:
Does Stallman even program anything nowadays?
He has like one commit in Emacs per year
stallman has probably never programmed in ansi c he made gcc before it was standarized
I know, right? They should have it on the cover of the book tatooed on the ass of some furry faggot mascot.
>GNU plus C
the first complete program is shown on the 10th page and the gcc invocation on the 12th page
>My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects. As a result, I have not had time or occasion to learn newer languages such as Perl, Python, PHP or Ruby.
Can I learn C using this or the C book by Dennis Ritchie is better?
tl; dr It's free.
Why not use all three?
i got roasted today in my classroom. i make games with opengl and glut and i can't do a fucking gauss sum recursive function. why? i have never used recursion besides theoretical
im 18
>got roasted
For being a dummy who can't even fucking internet.
google.com
>im 18
it's over, you will never make it, you should better apply to mcdonalds now.
nigga you know what he told me to write?
int gauss(int n) {
if (n == 1 ) return 1;
else return gauss(n-1)+n;
}
im 100% sure this is wrong.
he told me using recursion is better.
i told him to open up my website and play the wasm game i made with 0 fucking recursion.
it is good for maze generating though, or nice branch visualization.
tell me
how can a man with more than 5 languages gigachad like me can't do this simple problem. i don't know what the fuck gauss sum is. i used it once in 5th grade and sparsely later. i know the formula but not which type of 'array' it works on. (i used array coz i dont know what the englishmen call 1+2+3+....+100)
i am serbian
I like the way Stallman explains things. You can tell he puts a focus on being as clear as possible, and precise with words. So I'd go with his manual.