And I can attest the Lions' book is great, I read it as samizdat in the very early '80s, found it more useful than the K&R of that time (or at least K&R's chapt

And I can attest the Lions' book is great, I read it as samizdat in the very early '80s, found it more useful than the K&R of that time (or at least K&R's chapter on pointers and arrays was awful, and Lions went way beyond teaching you C). Of course it helped that the system I was supporting for pay was a PDP-11/44, and the student run computer center I founded used a surplus 11/45, all running UNIX(TM).