"The C Standard" in book form is here!

[Randy Howard]

Take a look at the page counts. Later editions of K&R2 are
printed on thicker paper to make it look bigger.

My two copies look almost the same, except for K&R1 is a very early
paperback edition, and K&R2 is the now *apparently* out of print
hardback version, making it a bit thicker visually from the spine,
but the pages seem to occupy about the same amount of space.

 

[Randy Howard]

Grand Prix de Monte Carlo is the first (I think) and the best (I know).

Monte Carlo may be the best spectacle in F1, but it is far, far from the
best racing. It's basically nothing more than the world's most expensive
parade.

 

[Randy Howard]

I have had this since 11/08/2003

Can I have a ride in your time machine?

 

[Randy Howard]

Can I have a ride in your time machine?

Hmm, I'm guessing this might be a "D/M/Y" instead of "M/D/Y"
deal, correct?

 

[Krisitne]

Originally posted by Chris \

news:[email protected]"][email protected][/url]...

| Many people, including me, like having hard copy books at hand,
along

| with electronic editions.

| When I first heard of this book several months ago, I pre-
ordered a

| copy. It arrived from Bookpool today.

[snip]

Great news, indeed.
| The particulars:

|

| Title: The C Standard

| Author: British Standards Institution

| ISBN: 0470845732

| List price is 34.95UK, 65.00US.

You forgot Melbourne Australia (voted the most livable city

in the world you know ).

I'd expect to pay ~$150.00 AUD at that rate <g>.

| Since it has arrived at Bookpool it is most likely available now
from

| other sources as well.

| <slightly OT>

| A similar edition with the C++ standard is due out in about a
month.

This is one book I'll definately order - I like to read in bed <g>.

Thanks for the information Jack.

Chris Val

If you are in Australia I would not order from BookPool - although they
offer a good range of books, I have had 3 shipments sent to Western
Australia in a space of 4 weeks and in all packages all books were
damaged (the box was not damaged at all). On the first order, they
shipped replacement books (which also came damaged), and with the second
order - I sent all the books back for a refund. I s/w their customer
service department about taking extra care with the books and packaging
(I even offered to pay extra for betting packaging) - (all my packages
were shipped via DHL).



If you are like me and are fussy about the condition of your books,
then I would recommend either paying the extra price for the book
in Australia and going to an actual bookstore, or purchasing
through bookware.com.au (they are reasonably priced and free
shipping over $120).



Just my two cents

Kristine

 

[LibraryUser]

(e-mail address removed) says...

Hmm, I'm guessing this might be a "D/M/Y" instead of "M/D/Y"
deal, correct?

Illustrating flagrant ignorance of ISO standards for dates by all
parties concerned. Today is 2003-09-13

 

[Randy Howard]

Illustrating flagrant ignorance of ISO standards for dates by all
parties concerned. Today is 2003-09-13

Can anyone name an operating system or well-known software application
that does not display "flagrant ignorance" of said standards?

 

[Irrwahn Grausewitz]

Illustrating flagrant ignorance of ISO standards for dates by all
parties concerned. Today is 2003-09-13

In some parts of the world (including the one I am posting from).
:^)

Tomorrow today will be yesterday. =%O

[H-OT]
BTW: the newsserver I am connecting to seems to use GMT (Greenwich Moon
Time that is, not Greenwich Mean Time).
[/H-OT]

--
do not write: void main(...)
do not use gets()
do not cast the return value of malloc()
do not fflush( stdin )
read the c.l.c-faq: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html

 

[Irrwahn Grausewitz]

Can anyone name an operating system or well-known software application
that does not display "flagrant ignorance" of said standards?

CBF-BRAIN-OS?

--
do not write: void main(...)
do not use gets()
do not cast the return value of malloc()
do not fflush( stdin )
read the c.l.c-faq: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html

 

[Kevin Easton]

Can anyone name an operating system or well-known software application
that does not display "flagrant ignorance" of said standards?

That's the default date format for Postgresql.

- Kevin.

 

[White Wolf]

Monte Carlo may be the best spectacle in F1, but it is far, far from
the best racing. It's basically nothing more than the world's most
expensive parade.

Nono. That one is the Hungarian Paliament.

 

[Robert W Hand]

Nono. That one is the Hungarian Paliament.

It's gratifying to see that individual liberties in Hungary are
greater than when John Kemeny left.

Best wishes,

Bob

 

[Jack Klein]

| Many people, including me, like having hard copy books at hand, along
| with electronic editions.
|
| When I first heard of this book several months ago, I pre-ordered a
| copy. It arrived from Bookpool today.

[snip]

Great news, indeed.

| The particulars:
|
| Title: The C Standard
| Author: British Standards Institution
| ISBN: 0470845732
|
| List price is 34.95UK, 65.00US.

You forgot Melbourne Australia (voted the most livable city
in the world you know ).

It wasn't me that forgot Australia, it was the publisher. The two
prices I quoted, and only those two were printed on the back cover of
the book. I suppose I could have googled up a web site and spent a
few hours converting to 100 or so different currencies...

--
Jack Klein
Home: http://JK-Technology.Com
FAQs for
comp.lang.c http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
comp.lang.c++ http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ ftp://snurse-l.org/pub/acllc-c++/faq

 

[Jack Klein]

If you are in Australia I would not order from BookPool - although they
offer a good range of books, I have had 3 shipments sent to Western
Australia in a space of 4 weeks and in all packages all books were
damaged (the box was not damaged at all). On the first order, they
shipped replacement books (which also came damaged), and with the second
order - I sent all the books back for a refund. I s/w their customer
service department about taking extra care with the books and packaging
(I even offered to pay extra for betting packaging) - (all my packages
were shipped via DHL).



If you are like me and are fussy about the condition of your books,
then I would recommend either paying the extra price for the book
in Australia and going to an actual bookstore, or purchasing
through bookware.com.au (they are reasonably priced and free
shipping over $120).



Just my two cents

Kristine

I'm sorry to hear of your experiences. I have bought quite a few
technical books from Bookpool, in fact I only look to other sources
when they don't carry the book I want. And I have literally never
received a book from them in other than perfect condition.

Perhaps your problems lies with some DHL operation along the route to
you location?

--
Jack Klein
Home: http://JK-Technology.Com
FAQs for
comp.lang.c http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
comp.lang.c++ http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ ftp://snurse-l.org/pub/acllc-c++/faq

 

[White Wolf]

It's gratifying to see that individual liberties in Hungary are
greater than when John Kemeny left.

I am not in Hungary.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Can I have a ride in your time machine?

Sure. Just move to the Rest of the World, and presto, you're in the
same month as us. Its only your weird americans that put the month in
the wrong place...

 

[Eric Sosman]

Can anyone name an operating system or well-known software application
that does not display "flagrant ignorance" of said standards?

OpenVMS.

 

[Chris \( Val \)]

[snip]

Hi Kristine.

| If you are in Australia I would not order from BookPool - although they
| offer a good range of books, I have had 3 shipments sent to Western
| Australia in a space of 4 weeks and in all packages all books were
| damaged (the box was not damaged at all). On the first order, they
| shipped replacement books (which also came damaged), and with the second
| order - I sent all the books back for a refund. I s/w their customer
| service department about taking extra care with the books and packaging
| (I even offered to pay extra for betting packaging) - (all my packages
| were shipped via DHL).
|
| If you are like me and are fussy about the condition of your books,

Yes, I am .

| then I would recommend either paying the extra price for the book
| in Australia and going to an actual bookstore, or purchasing
| through bookware.com.au (they are reasonably priced and free
| shipping over $120).

Thank you very much, I will look them up.

Cheeers.
Chris Val

 

[Dave Thompson]

Randy Howard wrote:

Illustrating flagrant ignorance of ISO standards for dates by all
parties concerned. Today is 2003-09-13

And even for antifurrin(er) Merkins, ANSI X3.30 and FIPS 4 specify
y-m-d, and IIRC did so before ISO 8601. They don't specify time (of
day), or the interval and period stuff, or weeks, though.

- David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.net