Product Description
C Unleashed is a very comprehensive book on the ANSI C programming language. This book promotes solid, portable programming using ANSI C, thus benefiting programmers on any platform, including mainframes. Covers the New Standard for C, known as C9X, and includes embedded systems, simulation processing, threading and multiprocessing, digital signal processing, and natural language processing.
From the Author
C Unleashed will help you to make the move from "good programmer" to "great programmer". It pays no heed to particular compilers or operating systems, concentrating instead on the core language, and demonstrating how you can use C's power to write fast, efficient, reliable, and portable programs. There's plenty of source code to get your teeth into, and lots of excellent exegetic text from some of the best programmers in the business. The book focuses very strongly on what you *can* do in C, if you set your mind to it. Need 100 digits of precision? No problem. Need to bulletproof your memory allocation? Sorted. Need some help with debugging? Look no further. Need to understand how to implement powerful data structures? Sure.
Take a peek into the world of embedded systems programming; learn how to isolate non-portable code; find out what you can really do with recursion, or with bit-twiddling, or with files.
It's all in here (except for hash tables, which we seem to have overlooked for some reason).
Hmmm. I'm beginning to sound like a marketing manager, so I think I'll stop there before I end up with pointy hair or something equally weird. :-)
From the Back Cover
About the Author
Richard Heathfield is a software consultant in the UK and director and chairman of Eton Computer Systems, Ltd. He has been programming with the ANSI C programming language commercially for almost 10 years. His experience includes writing a Y2K diagnostic engine, network synchronization software, code generators, testing tools and two Executive Information Systems. He specializes in writing across-platform software. In his spare time, he is working on a custom Internet/LAN applications for small-to-medium sized business based on a UDP/IP communications wrapper. Lawrence Kirby is a graduate of Cambridge University in England and has been programming with ANSI C for 10 years, mainly on communication and financial data related systems. He has contributed extensively to comp.lang.c and comp.std.c over the years, gaining a thorough knowledge of the language, closely following the development of the new C9X standard. He is considered one of the gurus of C and now the new C9X.
