Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Is it legal to download K&R from this site ? Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:58:50 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <5bd1fc96-6957-4008-9511-de22b9e18a9c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5b75f8dd226436b078478393b0f38f01"; logging-data="20250"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+MObHnxKKJajOTl2cNMPxm" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VrpyFPnsO6fd6i6i22Ha2Ce10k0= sha1:k6r2j4LrNDub73dKQh2NXlKKgpk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:103682 void writes: [...] > C90 is fully implemented by most popular compilers while C99 and C11 > don't. Thus K&R is the only common denomiator for C programmers and by > far cheaper than any ISO paper. Once more new features aren't > outstanding... That's not really true any longer. For example, gcc and clang are pretty much up to date with C11. (glibc, the library most commonly used with those compilers, doesn't implement , but that's optional anyway.) If you need to use Microsoft's C compiler there are likely to be some issues (last I heard it only had partial C99 support), but otherwise you're probably reasonably safe using C99 or even C11. (There's something going on with Visual Studio shipping with clang, but I don't know the details.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"