Off topic C question

[Aahz]

In article <dotv8a.un.ln at 127.0.0.1>, Carl Banks  <imbosol at vt.edu> wrote:
>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.
>
>Well, since I have been programming in C for ten years, and have never
>needed K&R, I have already proven your original statments, that I
>"*MUST* get K&R. Period," and that I'll "need it eventually," wrong.
>
>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).
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