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That was a misquote. The sentence is: 'The most recent edition of the canonical C text (the excitingly named The C Programming Language) was published in 1988;
by robotresearcher 9y ago
That was a misquote. The sentence is:
'The most recent edition of the canonical C text (the excitingly named The C Programming Language) was published in 1988; C is so unfashionable that the authors have neglected to update it in light of 30 years of progress in software engineering.'
Of course you can't see that 'it' refers to the book when you quote it with half the sentence missing.
- loeg 9y agoI read and understood the context. My claim is that calling K&R, last updated in 1988, "the canonical C text" is misleading, if not mistaken. Canonical C has moved on from K&R in the form of the C99 and C11 standards.
- lsaferite 9y agoPerhaps you are parsing "the canonical C text" differently? I read it as "the canonical 'C text'" and it sounds like perhaps you are reading it as "the 'canonical C' text"