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Old Jun 12th, 2005, 8:59 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
There are a lot of other better-written books than K&R.
I disagree. K&R is quite well written. The main weakness is that it isn't terribly current - things have moved on since. But if you want understand how C and C++ evolved (eg why some of those archaic features are there, and why they are used in existing code), K&R will be an essential part of your library.
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