From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T19:55:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning how Ruby compiles etc.

On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:55 AM, Tony Muler wrote:

> Further, my experience in C is about nothing. I know the
> C language (yes, I even understand pointers and to a certain
> extend memory allocation), but have no experience.
> Where can I learn more about what I need to know to understand
> Ruby's C-API and how to extend Ruby with it?
>
> So what do you recommend reading if I want to dig deeper in
> programming?

If you're going to dig into the C internals of Ruby, you will  
probably want to own a serious reference book on C. I recommend:

Harbison & Steele. "C: A Reference Manual", Fifth Edition, (C:ARM5,  
ISBN 0-13-089592X), Prentice Hall February 2002.

It's very well written and has a first class index. I know of no  
better English language reference for C. There is a website for it:  
<http://careferencemanual.com/> where you can look before you buy.

Regards, Morton