[aklug] Re: C: the early days

From: David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com>
Date: Sun Jan 08 2012 - 20:25:17 AKST

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* Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> [2012-01-08 15:57 -0500]:
> The textbook dated back to 1988, preceding the first Ansi C
> standardization (C89) by a year and, what was at the time the current
> standard, by 11 years, I think. I made the following comment (sic) to
> the interviewer:
>=20
> """
> We should be teaching to a current technical specification. Teaching
> C is not the same as teaching the classics.
> """

Funny - I just finished a class on "Secure Software Development" which
had two textbooks, and the second was the second edition of K&R's the C
Language. It was used as a C reference to give examples of what could
be dangerous as programming practices. An interesting class, and while
the programming practices were a bit... sketchy... the writing in that
book was excellent.

I actually started to re-read it with an eye for how they presented the
concepts, because my thesis will be technical (network intrusion
detection datasets) and the way some of those concepts were introduced
and explored was brilliant!

Regards,
- --=20
dave [ please don't CC me ]
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