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I would be far more impressed and gratified if Prentice Hall were cool enough to offer Kernighan & Ritchie's classic "C Programming Language" (2nd Edition) at 1

• jdludlow 15y ago
  I don't even want to think about the cost of this book right now. I recently cleaned out a huge pile of old computer books, stacking them into "keep" and "trash". My copy of K&R is currently missing. Odds are pretty decent that it's floating in a slurry of paper pulp. With any luck I loaned it out and forgot about it. I'll still never see it again, but at least it's still doing something useful.
  • nkassis 15y ago
    I'm on my second one too now. I loaned it a while back to someone and never got it back. In a way I feel good about that. Someone is now a better programmer because of that :) And they obviously liked it enough to keep it.
  • sliverstorm 15y ago
    You can pick up the first edition for a dollar or two. The second doesn't have any groundbreaking information that I'm aware of.
    • wyclif 15y ago
      Better yet, you can just grab a pirated PDF copy.
• phaus 15y ago
  I saw a copy of this at my local Borders for about $25 during their final sale. Sadly I made the mistake of not purchasing it because I was already in the process of learning a few other languages. I figured the price on Amazon would probably be about the same. I was mistaken.
• nitrogen 15y ago
  You can probably find it for significantly cheaper (i.e. <$10) on cheap, fluorescent-looking paper imported from overseas.
  • SageRaven 15y ago
    Yup, that's where I got mine a year or so ago. Then, a week later, I found the 1st edition at a thrift shop for a buck. The quality of the domestic version is so much better, but not $50 better. The price of a legit copy is shameful.
• jswinghammer 15y ago
  Has this book always been so expensive? I don't remember paying that much for my copy. That was ten years ago though so maybe I'm just getting old :)