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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: C book
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Date: 9 Sep 90 21:31:56 GMT
References: <1990Sep06.230149.5144@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1990Sep8.010336.5846@ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1990Sep8.010336.5846@ecn.purdue.edu> coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) writes:
>The ONLY book for Programming in C is "The C Programming Language" by
>Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie.

For ANSI C, such as ORCA/C purports to be, make sure you get the SECOND
EDITION of the book.  The first edition is also still being sold, but it
has value primarily as a reference for pre-ANSI implementations of C.
The second edition is more readable and has numerous small errors fixed.