K&R is the best programming book ever

By 5 Atom Dude on February 20, 2007

It's like 100 pages long, and no fluff at all.

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1 Jarrod who disagreed, says

being a Ruby person... I have to go with the pickax book :)

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1 Joey Joy! who agreed, says

Well, it is still the "bible" of C but it has some faults and could have ended the early day pointer wars before they started had it pointed more in their direction. Ha!

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2 bignose who disagreed, says

_The C Programming Language_ might be the best book on C. It's not the best book on programming.

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8 nic who disagreed, says

The wizard book is the best.

I also really like C For Programmers by Leendert Ammeraal

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5 Atom Dude who agreed, says

I guess, if we're just talking about language independent programming, then the Wizard book was the best. But Scheme isn't that useful in real life.

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2 reiger who disagreed, says

I don't think it's the best... but it is damn good.

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