Re: RustgreSQL

Gavin Flower <gavinflower@archidevsys.co.nz>

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Jan de Visser <jan@de-visser.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2017-01-08T23:05:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 09/01/17 11:31, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Jan de Visser <jan@de-visser.net> wrote:
>> Your fear of C in unfounded. The definitive c89 reference is a little book of
>> about 250 pages, more than half of which is about the standard library of
>> which you'll never use more than half. If you have some notepaper laying about
>> on which to scribble pointer diagrams you can be a C programmer to :-)
> The reference guide of Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie? Definitely
> a must-have!

I learnt C from the original version of K&R, and bought the ANSI version 
when that came out - at the time I was a COBOL programmer on a mighty 
MainFrame (with a 'massive' 1 MB of Core Memory and a 'fast' 2 MHz 
processor).  Now I use Java.


Cheers,
Gavin