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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
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Subject: Re: Programming books
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Date: 8 Feb 90 11:35:51 GMT
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In <26750@cup.portal.com>, phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan) writes:
>"A Book on C an Introduction to Programming in C" Al Kelly, Ira Pohl
>
>This book is good for experienced programmers to...it will fill you
>in on those strange things you never got around to adding to your
>repetoire.  I also agree that K&R is good.  Both of these books have
>new revisions out that cover the ANSII standard C:)

This is my opinion only, but 'A Book on C' is without a doubt the worst book I
have on any programming language.

-larry

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