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Preface to the Digital Edition
The second edition of The C Programming Language was published early
in 1988. At that time, the first C standard was almost complete, formalizing and
codifying the precise definition of the language. There have been two revisions
to the standard since then, in 1999 and 2011, that added a number of language
features and cleared up a few minor issues. But for many programmers, the
1988 definition of C covers the parts of the language that they use, so it has
never seemed necessary to update the book itself to track the newer standards.
Thus, the digital version is intentionally identical to the print edition.*
On the other hand, the computing world is very different from what it was
in 1988. The Internet has gone from a network primarily for researchers at
universities to a universal network linking everyone on the planet. Computers
have continued to get smaller, cheaper, and faster; a typical laptop or cell phone
today has more computing power than a supercomputer of 1988, yet costs so
little that probably half the people in the world have one. Languages such as
C++, Objective-C, Java, and JavaScript make it easier to program these systems
as well; all of them borrow heavily from C.
Remarkably, in spite of all of this change, C retains a central position. It is
still the core language for operating system implementation and tool building. It
remains unequaled for portability, efficiency, and ability to get close to the
hardware when necessary. C has sometimes been called a high-level assembler,
and this is not a bad characterization of how well it spans the range from
intricate data structure and control flow to the lowest level of external devices.
Sadly, Dennis Ritchie, the creator of C and the coauthor of this book, died
in October 2011 at the age of 70 and never saw this digital edition. Dennis was a
great language designer and programmer, and a superb writer, but he was also
funny, warm, and exceptionally kind. We are all in his debt. He will be greatly
missed.
Brian Kernighan
Princeton, New Jersey
November 2012
thepiratebay 上有 非扫描 pdf ，是真正的原版，以前chm和pdf 有不少问题。
146D13F090E50E97091DBBE5B37678DD1471CFAD.zip
(1.69 KB, 下载次数: 13)
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