Aviram Jenik wrote on 2003-03-25:

> Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, Kernighan & Ritchie have a second edition of
> > their book, published
> > > in 1988, which corresponds to ANSI C.
> >
> > It's quite hard to get the first edition these days, don't you
> > agree?
> >
>
> Depends on who you ask - I've got a first-edition right here on my
> bookshelf.
> It was the book I learned C from (long-long time ago). The nice thing
> about this book, is that it's excellent for pure beginners - even school
> pupils with zero knowledge in programming languages. But it's indeed not
> a reference; it's only good for nostalgic purposes...
>
There is a refernce section at the end (at least in the second
edition).  Admittedly, it's a too dry and concise to look up
conveniently.  But the book is great, I learnt from it too.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
whose 12x CD burner works at 24x with cdrecord in linux - sheer magic!

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