On Oct 05, 2024, Steve Litt wrote:
> nick said on Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:30:06 +1000
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>
> >I was interested to hear another commenter saying K&R was the worst
> >resource to learn from.
>
> That was me. K&R examples were cutesy tricky. Perhaps that was because
> optimizers were very bad back then, but it wasn't a good learning
> source because of the cutesy-tricky. In my opinion, a for statement
> should look like a for statement.

K&R2 (ANSI C) fixes a lot of that; although, yes, is more of "a
reference" than "a tutorial". Not a bad thing per se, but if you have
ZERO programming knowledge, you'll probably hit a wall a little quicker
than "expected(tm)".

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