I agree. About 20 years ago C# was the second language that I'd learnt after C/C++ and remember just picking the C# language spec and learning from it rather t

I agree. About 20 years ago C# was the second language that I'd learnt after C/C++ and remember just picking the C# language spec and learning from it rather than any of the books at that time since all the books were so wordy/verbose that it just didn't make sense. Especially having learnt C from K&R. I haven't looked lately at other language specs, and don't remember others, but at that time the C# language spec was very well written.