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The C Programming Language
Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie
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The original and definitive book on C, written by the language's co-creator and its most celebrated expositor — terse, exact, and still the model for how a programming book should read. The 'K&R' that Hacker News holds up as the standard of technical writing.
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#14 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
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“It was small, clear, concise, but you need to already have a programming background to appreciate it.”
From Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' feature 'Top Linux Developers' Recommended Programming Books,' originally published by HPE Insights and reprinted on Linux.com, in which Torvalds and other kernel developers named the programming books that shaped them.
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“I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover. It was quite a small book but it contained at the time the most complete, precise definition of the language.”
Pike quoted in a 2016 Princeton University profile of Brian Kernighan, recalling reading Kernighan's C book as a student.
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