Name: Anonymous 2011-10-04 15:45
Well I just finished reading K&R. I got it for my machine structures class in Fall '09, but we were never assigned any exercises out of it so I never bothered reading it because I already knew C. Since then, I've read several mentions of what a great book it is from the likes of Linus Torvalds and Rob Pike among others, so I decided to give it a read.
My impression: what...the...fuck? Are you serious? The examples in K&R are often cited as ``the official way to code in C,'' but 90% of them are badly designed on purpose so they only utilize features that have been introduced up to that point in the book. That may make it a great beginner's book, I guess, but as a reference or example of best practices, lolno.
My impression: what...the...fuck? Are you serious? The examples in K&R are often cited as ``the official way to code in C,'' but 90% of them are badly designed on purpose so they only utilize features that have been introduced up to that point in the book. That may make it a great beginner's book, I guess, but as a reference or example of best practices, lolno.