For those people who use a variety of dynamic languages, but haven’t yet hit C: Just Enough C For Open Source Projects has a brief but comprehensive run through the basic parts. The page linked is about the presentation, but the slides are available on there as a tarball. (Via) I could have used this a few days ago.
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
It’s really great. I have started with C a few months ago and this it what I would have needed. But it’s also great, if you want a Perl/Ruby/PHP/… programmer to help you with your C project.
Oh and this strange .gzip is a .tar.gz
I thought there was no exponentiation operator in C. Apparently ** is in the tutorial, but I tried it to no avail.
Vivek, ** is not exponation, it’s a pointer to a pointer.