Nov 13, 2006
Welcome to Show 065! This week's Topic: The C Programming Language, Part II!
Topics and links discussed in the podcast...
The World of
Commodore 2006 is coming on Dec 2, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada! Check out the info at the TPUG web site.
If you want to try C/C++ (or C#, or VB.NET), have a look at the
free Visual
Studio 2005 Express Editions from Microsoft.
Another great option for C/C++ on Windows and DOS is OpenWatcom!
If C for the 6502 is your goal, then cc65 has just the compiler for
you...
Specifically for the Commodore 64 and 128, here's some information
on a popular
compiler, Power C!
Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language, has a website
here. You can read about him on Wikipedia
here...
Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and co-author of The C Programming
Language, has a website
here, and Wikipedia info
here...
The GE-600 (otherwise known as Honeywell 6000) with the funky 36
bit C variables? Read about it at
Wikipedia here...
Finally, some history of the evolution of the C
language can be found at faqs.org!
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Thanks for listening!
- Earl