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Re: Best way to learn C?

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Manfred <noname@add.invalid> writes:

> On 12/19/2021 9:51 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Manfred <noname@add.invalid> writes:
>> 
>>> On 12/19/2021 4:21 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> [...]
>>>> I suppose it's still possible that this is the best tutorial but that
>>>> says more about the others than it does about the suitability of this
>>>> one (there are a lot of awful ones out there).
>>>>
>>>
>>> In short, along the lines of the same reasoning, could one say that
>>> K&R2 is still among the best choices available?
>> K&R2 is among the best introductions, but I don't see much of the same
>> reasoning.
>
> The reasoning would be that it is still among the best despite its
> age, which says something about later books.

I see what you mean.  Yes, I would say so.  Mind you, it's a lot younger
than the C tutorial -- 14 years younger.

>   For one thing, my recollection is that there are other good
>> books out there, so it is not faute de mieux.  For another, you won't
>> learn much from K&R2 that a modern C compiler will throw out.  You'll
>> miss out on a few things, but you'd have a reasonable grounding.
>> (And what's going on with blanks lines?  I keep replying to posts
>> quoting me, where all the blank lines I put in have gone.  I thought it
>> might be Google -- always a good bet is Usenet posts are messed up --
>> but you don't post through Google.)
>
> (I see now that those lines have gone - I was not aware when I wrote
> my reply. While I'm writing this empty lines are still in)

Just to be clear, it's blank lines in quoted material and I think you
only quoted one such line: between your question and my "K&R2 is among
the best..." paragraph.

If you want to test, this post ends with tree paragraphs, all set off
from the one before with a blank line.

I.e. there is one before "Just", one before "If" and one before "I.e.".
I know you are seeing them, I write this so that when it's been quoyed a
few times, people can see what was originally intended.

-- 
Ben.

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