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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: New K&R edition
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Date: 20 Mar 88 03:20:58 GMT
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In article <1379@laidbak.UUCP> daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes:
>I just received a little blurb from Prentice-Hall Publishers
>about K&R, *second* edition. According to P-H, it was published
>in Jan. 1988.

Okay, since the cat is now out of the bag:

Yes, Kernighan & Ritchie revised the C book and sent it off to
Prentice-Hall to be published as the second edition.  I haven't
seen the final publication yet, although it might have been
printed and distributed by now (I don't know what the turnaround
time is), but I did review a draft copy so I pretty much know
what the second edition contains.

Generally:  virtually all the minor annoyances of the first
edition have been cleaned up; more examples have been added;
and the language definition has been changed to be ANSI C
(with possible small deviations due to having to work from drafts
rather than the final standard, which hasn't yet been produced).

I would say this edition is significantly better than the first,
which was of course a classic.