The problem with K&R is that it stops at C89, while C99 almost feels like a new and much "friendlier" language (mainly because of compound literals and designat

The problem with K&R is that it stops at C89, while C99 almost feels like a new and much "friendlier" language (mainly because of compound literals and designated initialization). (e.g. shameless plug: https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.html https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.h...) K&R 2nd Edition is still a very good read of course, but mainly for all the little interesting details that are not directly related to the C syntax, but there really should have been a K&R 3rd Edition when C99 came around.