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In addition, he co-wrote The UNIX Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming with Rob Pike and The Elements of Programming Style with PJ Plauger. I've never read the Practice of Programming (add it to the wish list) but the other two books are fantastic. The Elements of Programming Style is somewhat dated (code is in PL/I and Fortran, and it discourages things like
goto
which we all already know is bad) but a lot of it is still relevant and worth picking up a used copy if you can find it.Or,
for 877 pages. (WTF? UPE and ST are ~350 pages? I don't remember them being that long.)
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A lot of Kernighan’s (co‐authored) books age surprisingly well. It’s a real testament to his writing style that they are still relevant today despite examples tending to be in PL/I or Fortran.
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