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From: arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Can Novices Jump Directly in C? (Books)
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Date: 14 Feb 91 17:29:43 GMT
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In article <431@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>As it is said, C is not a big language, and is not served well by "big"
>books that cram page after page of diagrams, flowcharts, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
>The best companion is K&P's (as in "Pike") "Software Tools".  If you can
>snag some of the old Tool's ratfor goodies as well, more power to you.

The "P" is for Plauger, as in P.J.  Both the original "Software Tools",
and the later "Software Tools in Pascal" should be on *every* serious
Unix programmer's bookshelf.  Brian Kernighan did write "The UNIX Programming
Environment" with Rob Pike, and that book is sometimes referred to as "K&P",
but the Software Tools books are usually just referred to by their titles.
Not to mention, "The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd Edition", also
by Kernighan and Plauger.

In general, anything with Brian Kernighan as a co-author is worth buying,
and reading, at least twice.
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