Off topic C question

[Peter Hansen]

Aahz wrote:
> 
> In article <dotv8a.un.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.
[...]
> >So if I agreed with you, I'd be wrong.
> 
> Precisely.  Of course, there's no way to prove that without your trying
> to read K&R, but note that several people in this thread have agreed
> with me (even if they haven't phrased their opinions as vociferously).

Oh, I'll back you up vociferously.  I learned C before I had
access to a C compiler or computer that ran other than BASIC
by reading K&R front to back, back to front, and eleven ways
from Sunday.  Never read any other book about C since either
and I don't seem to have missed them.  I'm still amazed that
it was so readable that I didn't feel it was a labour to get
through it that way.

-Peter