| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan de Visser <jan(at)de-visser(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: RustgreSQL |
| Date: | 2017-01-08 23:05:38 |
| Message-ID: | fa968540-a540-b6e6-d0bd-d420d33f1589@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 09/01/17 11:31, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Jan de Visser <jan(at)de-visser(dot)net> wrote:
>> Your fear of C in unfounded. The definitive c89 reference is a little book of
>> about 250 pages, more than half of which is about the standard library of
>> which you'll never use more than half. If you have some notepaper laying about
>> on which to scribble pointer diagrams you can be a C programmer to :-)
> The reference guide of Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie? Definitely
> a must-have!
I learnt C from the original version of K&R, and bought the ANSI version
when that came out - at the time I was a COBOL programmer on a mighty
MainFrame (with a 'massive' 1 MB of Core Memory and a 'fast' 2 MHz
processor). Now I use Java.
Cheers,
Gavin
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