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Re: Best way to learn C?

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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.

   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)

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