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From: Kevin_P_McCarty@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What's a C expert?
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Date: 20 Jun 89 03:59:04 GMT
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In <12214@well.UUCP>, tmh@well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff) asks
> What do you need to know to be an expert C programmer?
The answer is in two parts, in order of importance:
1) You need to know software engineering:
	data structures
	algorithms
	computer architectures
	reliability
	efficiency
2) You need to understand C:
	why K&R says what it says
	why X3J11 did what it did

Kevin McCarty