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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wanted: advice on a good C textbook
Message-ID: <10531@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Jul 89 04:57:03 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5005@ficc.uu.net> walker@ficc.uu.net (Walker Mangum) writes:
>I *highly* recommend _The C Puzzle Book_.

I have a problem with that book:  It relies on nonstandard C
implementation features for many of its examples, and the
emphasis on puzzling C constructs does not encourage use of
clean coding style.