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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: Good C Manual?
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 19:12:50 EDT
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In article <2402@wasat.usc.edu> aniekan@wasat.usc.edu () writes:
>PS:  I already know about Kernighan and Pike, I don't think it's
>     easy-enough-to-read, at least for the "new" programmer.

Kernighan & Pike's "The UNIX Programming Environment" is intended
to assist in exploiting the UNIX environment, not to learn C.

Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" is still the
best introductory C textbook in my opinion, although many people
prefer Harbison & Steele's "C: A Reference Manual".  Plum Hall
publishes some good intermediate-level texts worth having; you
generally have to get them from Plum Hall, 1 Spruce Av., Cardiff NJ
since most large bookstores don't stock them (unlike the other books
I mentioned).  There are lots of mass-market books purporting to
teach C for small computers; most of the ones I've seen are pretty bad.