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- From: dirsolns@world.std.com (Bernard Farrell)
- Subject: Re: A good book on C ?
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:16:58 GMT
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- wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov (William J. Bene) writes:
- : Other than K&R, are there any other C reference manuals that anyone cares to
- : recommend?
- :
- Personally, as a reference book, I always recommend the following over
- K&R in my classes.
-
- C: A Reference Manual
- Samuel P. Harbison & Guy L. Steele
- Prentice-Hall
- ISBN 0-13-110941-3
-
- It's a REAL reference manual, and it gives advice on those areas which
- are no clearly defined and tend to differ between implementations.
-
- Of course, there's also the ANSI C standard. 8-)
- (I smile, cause it's TOUGH to read !)
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