Off topic C question

[Steven Rumbalski]

Aahz wrote:

> In article <231u8a.lc.ln at 127.0.0.1>, Carl Banks  <imbosol at vt.edu> wrote:
>>Aahz wrote:
>>>
>>> If you want to be a C programmer, you *MUST* get K&R.  Period.  Feel
>>> free to buy another book if K&R turns out to be too heavy for you right
>>> now, but recognize that you'll need it eventually.
>>
>>Really?  I've been programming in C for ten years, and I've never even
>>seen the K&R book.  I think I learned it just fine.  Not that I have a
>>better suggestion.
> 
> I'm of the opinion that if you used K&R, you'd agree with me.

I'm with Carl on this one.  One does not *need* K&R to become a good C 
programmer.  One can pick up the zen of C (if there such a thing as a "zen 
of C") without K&R.  Of course reading K&R would probably make that path 
less painful.

Steven Rumbalski