Quoth Nadav Har'El on Tue, Mar 25, 2003: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003, Mark Veltzer wrote about "Re: ANSI C": > > P.S. Ritchie and Kerninghan didn't even dream of GCC when they thought of C so > > the small book is of little use these days. > > Actually, Kernighan & Ritchie have a second edition of their book, published > in 1988, which corresponds to ANSI C.
It's quite hard to get the first edition these days, don't you agree? > It might not be the most recently > published book, but it's far from "of little use these days", and is still > very relevant. (if you think 1988 is old, remember that the first edition > of their book was published in 1978). And the second edition is less "small" > than the first edition. > > Harbison & Steele's book, "C Reference Manual" is considered by many to be a > better book and with more details about the standard. K&R is not a reference, but a textbook. > And of course, there is the text of the standard itself, which ISO probably > charge $1000 (or something similarly outrageous) The Standard may (probably) be obtained from the Standards Institution of Israel (Machon Ha-tkanim Ha-israeli), 42 Chaim Levanon Street, Tel Aviv 69977, phone 03-6465154, fax 03-6419693, e-mail <iso/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, URL <http://www.sii.org.il/>, and I have no idea about the cost (I believe a couple of hundreds of dollars). > but if you're into illegal > copying probably can be found and copied in electronic format. A publically available draft from August 3, 1998: http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n843.htm http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n843.pdf http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n843.ps.gz Draft Rationale: http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf No illegal copying involved. Vadik. -- It's later than you think. (K) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
