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		saagarjha on Jan 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the C Standard Library > I don't think the K&R one is worthwhile either. It's far too outdated and teaches some bad practices. It’s old, but I didn’t see anything horrible in the book. What bad practices does it teach?

loeg on Jan 20, 2019 [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333520

saagarjha on Jan 20, 2019 | [–]

Not a fan of Learn C the Hard Way, but I will agree with you that K&R is a bit light on details of how/why to write safe C code. I stand by K&R being the best book for learning C that I’ve read, though it goes nicely with a good application security curriculum ;)

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