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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What are the best C programming language books for beginner?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 20:57:27 -0600
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- In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960313150356.30507A-100000@io.UWinnipeg.ca>,
- Bill Simpson <wsimpson@uwinnipeg.ca> wrote:
- >A simple litmus test: look for int main(void). Unbelevably, you still
- >get many versions other than this (including the holy K&R book, which the
- >authors have not bothered to ANSI-ize so far as I know).
-
- K&R is fully ANSI, with one (1) exception I know of (*study* page 117.).
- I have found one piece of advice I disagree with, one mistake, and one
- typo. (Missing " on page 114. I didn't find it; dmr pointed it out
- when I sent in a bug report on the one on 117.)
-
- It has been ANSI-ized since before there was ANSI C.
-
- (Although an intermediate draft there was inaccurate.)
-
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