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The C Programming Language, second edition, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, widely regarded to be the authoritative reference on C.

The C Programming Language (sometimes referred to as K&R) is a well-known computer science book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language (as well as co-designed the UNIX operating system with whose development the language was closely intertwined). The book was central to the development and popularization of the C programming language and is still widely read and used today. Because the book was co-authored by the original language designer, and because the first edition of the book served for many years as the de facto standard for the language, the book is regarded by many to be the authoritative reference on C.

History

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The C Programming Language, first edition.

The first edition of the book, published in 1978, was the first widely available book on the C programming language, written by the language's creators. Written in conjunction with the language's early development at AT&T Bell Labs, the version of C described in this book is sometimes referred to as K&R C (after the book's authors), often to distinguish this early version from the later version of C standardized as ANSI C.

In 1988 the second edition of the book was published, updated to cover the changes to the C programming language resulting from the new ANSI C standard, particularly with the inclusion of reference material on standard libraries. The second edition (and as of 2006, the most recent edition) of the book has since been translated into over 20 languages.

ANSI C, first standardized in 1988, has since undergone several revisions, the most recent of which is ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (also known as "C99"), adopted as an ANSI standard in March 2000. However, no new edition of The C Programming Language has yet been released to cover the more recent standards.

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References

  • Kernighan, Brian W. (February 1978). The C Programming Language (1st ed. ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131101633. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)