> Kernighan and Richie's The C Programming Language is one > of most popular, if not the most popular, programming books, > and it defined the ANSI stan

> Kernighan and Richie's The C Programming Language is one > of most popular, if not the most popular, programming books, > and it defined the ANSI standard. Wait, what? ANSI defined the ANSI standard, which had quite a few additions from K&R C. It'd be more proper to say that the book defined C itself before the publication of the standard.