Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!quintus!ok
From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C style
Message-ID: <528@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 06:54:02 GMT
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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The book
	Professional Software, Volume II:
	    Programming Practice
	by Henry Ledgard with John Tauer
	Addison-Wesley, 1987
	ISBN 0-201-12232-4 (v.2)
	approx US$20

is about matters of programming style.  Most of what is said is
language-independent;  what is language-specific has Pascal,
Modula-2, and   C   versions.  I don't like everything he says,
and the documentation of data structures is not discussed, but
it's well worth reading.

Mind you, while the Example program at the end is about as
clear and beautiful as Pascal/Ada gets, it convinced me that I
should write programs like that (a text formatter) in Lisp...