Chad Scherrer wrote:
My question is, as I learn C, are there any particular Haskell concepts I should keep in the back of my mind, or is it better to approach C from scratch?
One thing from Haskell I'd try keep in mind is to minimize side effects and keep the scope of side effects as contained and local as possible. So avoid mutating global variables, try not to write to the same file from multiple different subroutines, etc. And if you start getting seg-faults, you'll probably want a tool to help you, since reasoning and debug by printf on pointers can only take you so far in a language like C. http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Allocation-Debugging.html http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ElectricFence/ http://valgrind.org/ Greg Buchholz