On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 11:19 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Matthew Miller writes: > > > PS: if you want a book on C instead of C++, don't bother with anything but > > the original book by the language's creators: C Programming Language by > > Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. As I said before, C is an elegant and > > small language, and this book is all you need. > > No, it's not. > > You also need a book that really tells you all about ANSI C. > > The K&R syntax has been obsolete for at least a decade. My 1988 second edition of the K&R book already uses the (then-draft) ANSI C syntax. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>