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jm.bourguet@gmail.com writes:
> Le mercredi 5 avril 2017 13:10:17 UTC+2, Richard Bos a écrit :
>> For someone who is already a programmer, but is a beginner at C, IYAM
>> the best tutorial is still the original: Kernignan and Ritchie's The C
>> Programming Language. But that's not legally available on-line.
>
> That's what I used to say until a few years ago I reread it and
> noticed that although the second edition was not describing C as it is
> practiced nowadays but K&R C with minimal syntax update to make it
> syntactically acceptable to a C++ compiler used to compensate the lack
> of C compilers accepting the language described by the then-future
> standard.  It's a book of the 70's updated in the 80's and it feels.
> Read it again and ask yourself: do you really recommend it to someone
> who does not know C?

K&R2 was published about the same time the 1989 ANSI C standard
was published.  Of course it doesn't cover C99 or C11, but I think
it generally does a good job of covering ANSI C89.  Can you give
an example where it doesn't?

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  Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-04-04 14:10 +0100
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  Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-04-05 11:10 +0000
    Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners jm.bourguet@gmail.com - 2017-04-05 05:55 -0700
      Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2017-04-05 08:01 -0700
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              Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-06 07:53 -0700
                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-06 15:12 +0000
                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-06 09:12 -0700
                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-06 16:20 +0000
                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-06 09:26 -0700
                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-06 11:53 -0700
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                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-06 17:09 +0000
                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-06 10:37 -0700
                Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-06 18:50 +0000
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                Re: Linux and GCC Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-09 17:06 +0200
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                Re: Linux and GCC supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-17 09:19 -0700
      Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-05 13:50 -0700
        Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-05 14:47 -0700
          Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-06 09:45 +0200
        Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners jm.bourguet@gmail.com - 2017-04-06 01:57 -0700
  Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2017-04-05 15:16 -0500
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  Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-04-06 14:14 +0000
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      Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-08 19:01 +0100
        Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-09 00:04 +0100
        Re: Reliable C tutorial for beginners Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2017-04-09 14:03 +0200
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