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详细说明： THE C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WAS pioneered by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s. It was not until the late 1970s, however, that this pro- gramming language began to gain widespread popularity and support.This was because until that time C compilers were not readily available for commercial use outside of Bell Laboratories. Initially, C’s growth in popularity was also spurred on in part by the equal, if not faster, growth in popularity of the Unix operating system.This operating system, which was also developed at Bell Laboratories, had C as its “standard” programming lan- guage. In fact, well over 90% of the operating system itself was written in the C lan- guage! The enormous success of the IBM PC and its look-alikes soon made MS-DOS the most popular environment for the C language.As C grew in popularity across different operating systems, more and more vendors hopped on the bandwagon and started mar- keting their own C compilers. For the most part, their version of the C language was based on an appendix found in the first C programming text—The C Programming Language—by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. Unfortunately, this appendix did not provide a complete and unambiguous definition of C, meaning that vendors were left to interpret some aspects of the language on their own. In the early 1980s, a need was seen to standardize the definition of the C language. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is the organization that handles such things, so in 1983 an ANSI C committee (called X3J11) was formed to standardize C. In 1989, the committee’s work was ratified, and in 1990, the first official ANSI standard def- inition of C was published. Because C is used around the world, the International Standard Organization (ISO) soon got involved.They adopted the standard, where it was called ISO/IEC 9899:1990. Since that time, additional changes have been made to the C language.The most recent standard was adopted in 1999. It is known as ANSI C99, or ISO/IEC 9899:1999. It is this version of the language upon which this book is based. C is a “higher-level language,” yet it provides capabilities that enable the user to “get in close” with the hardware and deal with the computer on a much lower level.This is 01 0672326663 CH01 6/10/04 2:04 PM Page 12 Chapter 1 Introduction because, although C is a general-purpose structured programming language, it was origi- nally designed with systems programming applications in mind and, as such, provides the user with an enormous amount of power and flexibility. This book proposes to teach you how to program in C. It assumes no previous expo- sure to the language and was designed to appeal to novice and experienced programmers alike. If you have previous programming experience, you will find that C has a unique way of doing things that probably differs from other languages you have used. Every feature of the C language is treated in this text.As each new feature is present- ed, a small complete program example is usually provided to illustrate the feature.This reflects the overriding philosophy that has been used in writing this book: to teach by example. Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, so is a properly chosen program example. If you have access to a computer facility that supports the C programming lan- guage, you are strongly encouraged to download and run each program presented in this book and to compare the results obtained on your system to those shown in the text. By doing so, not only will you learn the language and its syntax, but you will also become familiar with the process of typing in, compiling, and running C programs. You will find that program readability has been stressed throughout the book.This is because I strongly believe that programs should be written so that they can be easily read—either by the author or by somebody else.Through experience and common sense, you will find that such programs are almost always easier to write, debug, and modify. Furthermore, developing programs that are readable is a natural result of a true adherence to a structured programming discipline. Because this book was written as a tutorial, the material covered in each chapter is based on previously presented material.Therefore, maximum benefit will be derived from this book by reading each chapter in succession, and you are highly discouraged from “skipping around.”You should also work through the exercises that are presented at the end of each chapter before proceeding on to the next chapter. Chapter 2,“Some Fundamentals,” which covers some fundamental terminology about higher-level programming languages and the process of compiling programs, has been included to ensure that you understand the language used throughout the remainder of the text. From Chapter 3,“Compiling and Running Your First Program,” on, you will be slowly introduced to the C language. By the time Chapter 16,“Input and Output Operations in C,” rolls around, all the essential features of the language will have been covered. Chapter 16 goes into more depth about I/O operations in C. Chapter 17, “Miscellaneous and Advanced Features,” includes those features of the language that are of a more advanced or esoteric nature. Chapter 18,“Debugging Programs,” shows how you can use the C preprocessor to help debug your programs. It also introduces you to interactive debugging.The popular debugger gdb was chosen to illustrate this debugging technique. Over the last decade, the programming world has been abuzz with the notion of object-oriented programming, or OOP for short. C is not an OOP language; however, several other programming languages that are based on C are OOP languages. Chapter 19,“Object-Oriented Programming,” gives a brief introduction to OOP and some of its 01 0672326663 CH01 6/10/04 2:04 PM Page 23 Introduction terminology. It also gives a brief overview of three OOP languages that are based on C, namely C++, C#, and Objective-C. Appendix A,“C Language Summary,” provides a complete summary of the language and is provided for reference purposes. Appendix B,“The Standard C Library,” provides a summary of many of the standard library routines that you will find on all systems that support C. Appendix C,“Compiling Programs with gcc,” summarizes many of the commonly used options when compiling programs with GNU’s C compiler gcc. In Appendix D,“Common Programming Mistakes,” you’ll find a list of common pro- gramming mistakes. Finally,Appendix E,“Resources,” provides a list of resources you can turn to for more information about the C language and to further your studies. Answers to the quizzes at the end of chapters can be found at www.kochan-wood.com. This book makes no assumptions about a particular computer system or operating system on which the C language is implemented.The text makes brief mention of how to compile and execute programs using the popular GNU C compiler gcc. I want to thank the following people for their help in the preparation of various ver- sions of this text: Douglas McCormick, Jim Scharf, Henry Tabickman, Dick Fritz, Steve Levy,Tony Ianinno, and Ken Brown. I also want to thank Henry Mullish of New York University for teaching me so much about writing and for getting me started in the publishing business. An earlier edition of this book was also dedicated to the memory of Maureen Connelly, a former production editor at Hayden Book Company, the publishers of the first edition of this book ...展开收缩
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