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Kernighans Books are the gold-standard I measure all instructional textbooks against.
by usrbinbash 5y ago
Kernighans Books are the gold-standard I measure all instructional textbooks against.
- patrec 5y agoDunno. IMO, the only good thing that can be said about The C Programing Language is that it's short. The AWK Programming Language, on the other hand, is indeed a classic.
- derekp7 5y agoThe shortness is what makes it great. I recall going through a couple of thick C books, not getting anywhere. Until I picked up the K&R book, and was writing usable C within a couple weeks.
- jstx1 5y agoIn addition to the books, he's the 'k' in the awk programming language and he came up with the name Unix.