Reddit reviews The Standard C Library
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> that's why I asked whether or not the new owner would own the rights to it because it wasn't immediately disclosed on the ebay listing.
If it isn't part of the listing, the default assumption should be NO, the disc doesn't come with any additional rights.
> I've never heard of an instance where someone purchased source code and it wasn't for the sole purpose of owning the IP in some form or another.
I have. Several times, in fact. Here's one example. This book contains the source code for a complete implementation of the ANSI/ISO C standard library. The source code is provided for educational purposes, and the author of that book used to (maybe still does) sell that same source code as a commercial product, for some tens of thousands of dollars.
> What would even be the point of purchasing source code if you couldn't use it in some commercial way.
Scholarship, searching for prior art to invalidate a patent claim, plain curiosity, or just as an art object to hang on your wall and admire.
> this disc that is being sold contains the source and the original art work. To me that sounds like someone would be acquiring full ownership of the project
That's the fundamental disconnect here. I have no idea why you think this would be different from any other CD you might buy. Just because the content is source code? That's really not any different from any other text. In fact, if you were to look at any of the human-readable files on that disk, they'll almost certainly have a copyright declaration in them that reads ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, which I think is pretty unambiguous. Actually, given that it's from 1996, they might have neglected a copyright notice in every file. Doesn't make it any less protected, though.
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In which language? If it is C or C++, then P.J. Plauger has a couple of books (this is the C one)on implementing the standard libraries, including the maths functions.
Edit: I was a bit shocked looking at the price - I own a copy (bought a long time back) and I would never have paid that much for it (or any other book) unless I was drunk. Book prices seem to have got ludicrous, especially when you consider we've been living in times of low inflation.
I too started with C as my first language using K&R and "learn C the hard way" but i abandoned both halfway. I've started from beginning with "A modern approach to C" as my main source and C: A Reference Manual as, well reference manual when i wanted more in depth knowledge about particular subject. After you're done with Modern approach you should go back to K&R and finish it in order to have your foundation properly rounded.
Edit: I should add few more resources that generally helped me a lot when I started:
http://c-faq.com/
C Traps and Pitfalls
C Standard Library
Things you should avoid in C
A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++
My "go to" resource for years is P. J. Plauger's The C Standard Library. Not only does it quote the relevant standard, but goes into the history of why the standard functions are the way they are, plus gives a sample implementation of each function. It only covers the functions in C89 but I still refer to it from time to time.
The Standard C Library might be the best library to look at first. Richard Stevens' Unix books are also very good.
Others include CoreFoundation, OpenGL, ffmpeg, etc.
Care to elaborate on what you mean by functional program framework?
Are you talking about doing functional programming in C? I think there is a book on that. I think it's this one: http://www.amazon.com/Functional-C-International-Computer-Science/dp/0201419505/ - I'm not so sure though.
Are you talking about building framework/programs that are functional (as in robust, secure, ...)? If that is the case, then there is an interesting book named "C Interfaces and Implementations" going through several kinds of modules you might want to implement in C, and going through how you'd elaborate an interface and an implementation for them => http://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Implementations-Techniques-Creating-Reusable/dp/0201498413/. This book covers the sort of thing that I believe you should be studying after learning the overall language syntax and semantics, how to combine features of C to solve not so trivial algorithmic problems, and so forth. In summary, it talks about modules design (both interfaces and implementations) in C.
There are more books here, like those listed in here http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Books. You can also check some more learning resources here http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Usenet and here http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Web_resources.
Still on my second interpretation of your functional program framework (because idk much about the first one besides that book "Functional C"), there are tons of very complicated systems built in C, like operating systems, server software, and so forth. And for many of them, there were books written. Here are some software for which you can find books on their design and implementation:
There are probably more, but those are the one which came to mind.