I do agree, that book is really great, both very in-depth and at the same time entertaining to read. Unfortunately, it appears to have been out of print for a

I do agree, that book is really great, both very in-depth and at the same time entertaining to read. Unfortunately, it appears to have been out of print for a while now. Another book I can highly recommend is "The New C Standard: A Cultural and Economic Commentary" (http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/cbook.html http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/cbook.html). It takes apart the C language standard (C99) pretty much sentence by sentence, explains what it means and also contrasts how C99 is similar to or different from other languages (C++ mostly, but also, say, Fortran or Pascal).