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Re: Best way to learn C?

From Manfred <noname@add.invalid>
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Subject Re: Best way to learn C?
Date 2021-12-19 19:02 +0100
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On 12/19/2021 4:21 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 5:35:01 AM UTC-6, Torbjörn Svensson Diaz wrote:
>>> What is the best way to learn C? Which are the best tutorials and
>>> which are the best books? Can someone please give me a little
>>> guidance?
>>>
>>
>> Others have given good book suggestions. For the best /tutorial/, I'd
>> recommend Brian Kernighan's original tutorial paper. It's a little
>> outdated and quirky. But it's well written and *short*. It gives a
>> reasonably complete overview that should make a more modern text
>> easier to follow.
>>
>>    https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-tutor.html
> 
> No, I can't agree.  At time, maybe, but not now.  Amongst the big
> problems are: no function prototypes, implicit int, old-style function
> definitions, the old =<op> syntax, unique structure tags (because they
> are all interchangeable), no initialisation of structures nor of local
> variables and '\0' as an end-of-file marker.
> 
> But then there's almost no use of library functions, no unsigned types,
> no typedef, no long, no void, no const and all local declarations have
> to be at the start of a function.  Some of these would, perhaps, be
> deliberately omitted from a first tutorial, but I would not students to
> learn that C has only four types: char, int float and double.
> 
> 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?

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