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We highly recommend you to buy this book and give the authors their proper credit. This book is an absolute guide for beginners as well as amateur programmers to ansi standard c programming language. Written by the developers of c, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ansi standard for c while showing how to take advantage of cs rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures. Turing award, the highest honour in computer science. Brian kernighan speaks at a tribute to dennis ritchie in 2012 at bell labs. Dennis ritchie 1937 kentucky dennis ritchie in 1940 united states federal census dennis ritchie was born circa 1937, at birth place, kentucky, to robert ritchie and dora belle ritchie. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. October 12, 2011 wis an american computer scientist who helped shape the digital era. The cost of the text is very much worth the instruction and. His father, alistair ritchie, worked at bell and cowrote a book on switching circuits. Dennis ritchie is the father of the c programming language, and with fellow bell labs researcher ken thompson, he used c to build unix, the operating system that so much of the world is built on. The c programming language pdf kernighanritchie code. The book was central to the development and popularization of the c programming language and is still widely read and used today.
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