🚀 go-pugleaf

Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
 > 
 > >Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
 > > >  this I think is a major flaw in the otherwise great book. 
 > 
 > The book is a classic work, so it might as well be left alone, with its few
 > minor warts and all.

So, which is it?  "major" or "minor" ?

I don't want to allow this to pass so casually.   K&R are certainly selling
a bunch of books to people on the premise that they have expertise in the
subject.    If they make fundamental errors in their text (and I'm starting
to believe that they are, in fact, misrepresenting the language C with respect
to the standard library) then we should shed some light on these mistakes
and maybe influence the next revision.

This is exactly why I started this discussion.  I am now even more convinced
that most programmers do not even yet understand the implications of some of
the most important decisions of the C Standardization effort.