21st Century C: C Tips from the New School

Throw out your old ideas about C and get to know a programming language thats substantially outgrown its origins. With this revised edition of 21st Century C, youll discover uptodate techniques missing from other C tutorials, whether youre new to the language or just getting reacquainted.C isnt just the foundation of modern programming languages; it is a modern language, ideal for writing efficient, stateoftheart applications. Get past idioms that made sense on mainframes and learn the tools you need to work with this evolved and aggressively simple language. No matter what programming language you currently favor, youll quickly see that 21st century C rocks. Set up a C programming environment with shell facilities, makefiles, text editors, debuggers, and memory checkers Use Autotools, Cs de facto crossplatform package manager Learn about the problematic C concepts too useful to discard Solve Cs stringbuilding problems with Cstandard functions Use modern syntactic features for functions that take structured inputs Build highlevel, objectbased libraries and programs Perform advanced math, talk to internet servers, and run databases with existing C librariesThis edition also includes new material on concurrent threads, virtual tables, C99 numeric types, and other features.