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📣 walrus_pen

I want to have a basic familiarity with C, shoudl I read K&R?


I don't plan (at this time) to use C professionally, but I do feel like understanding C well would benefit me professionally (I mostly do Typescript/JS)

I've been trying to settle on a good text to get a "good enough" understanding of C but many of them are much longer than I am motivated to invest in at this time, while K&R is very succinct/short.

  👤 ThrowawayR2 Accepted Answer ✓
I like K&R but it's so incredibly dated that it would be like reading the HTML 2.0 spec (from '95) to understand web frontend development today. Wouldn't recommend it.