"Richard" <rgrdev@gmail.com> wrote in message
> "Malcolm McLean" <regniztar@btinternet.com> writes:
>
>> There's a huge advantage to buying books written by people on this ng,
>> which is that you can speak to the author.
>
> I prefer a book where I don't need to talk to the author to understand
> it to be honest.
>
And you don't need a C compiler to learn the language. My mother learnt
programming for a non-existent computer. This was in the days when they used
to count the number of computers in the world.
However it is a real if you can type programs in and see the results.

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