Are old C books up to date?

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Mark Rosenthal2015-09-23 13:37:46

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Mark Rosenthal, 2015-09-23 13:37:46

Hello.
I found an old book on C and C++ for 2000, I decided to add it to the reading queue, so, for general development. There are versions of Perl, PHP, or Python and Ruby there, so I think the old books on Perl are irrelevant (by the way, there are 5 books from 2001 to 2007, I can donate :)) and there is not much point in learning from them, well, except perhaps learn terminology and some algorithms, but what about C?

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akarin, 2015-09-23
@akarin

Watching what.
The C Programming Language Kernighan and Ritchie (1978) classic.

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Sergey, 2015-09-23
@Pjeroo

So C and C++ also have standards and they change. Better to read newer books

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AxisPod, 2015-09-23
@AxisPod

Find something fresh and from a respected author. I remember having books on C/C++, so I don't even understand why they were published.

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asd111, 2015-09-23
@asd111

There are new standards in which you can do what was impossible in the old ones.
At the moment, most use the C99 standard, the newest one is like C11
rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5079382