For most of my career since the 1980s, I have been a Common Lisp and Java developer. However, I did have an eight year stretch of using C++ at SAIC and later fo

For most of my career since the 1980s, I have been a Common Lisp and Java developer. However, I did have an eight year stretch of using C++ at SAIC and later for PacBell, Disney and Nintendo projects. When I was done with my professional C++ stint, I fell in love with the simplicity of C. It was like a breath of fresh air. I stopped using C largely by accident: everyone who paid for my work wanted Common Lisp or Java, and that lasted until the start of the deep learning craze seven years ago. I thank the author for making a CC licensed PDF of his book available.