Re:The Book That Every Programmer Should Read
by diego_moita on Monday October 31, 2011 @11:01AM
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I respectfully disagree.
K&R is a book that influenced me a lot, but its most important lesson is not laid down very explicitly. IMHO, this lesson is its notion of programming style: terse, small, efficient. It permeates the whole book and C/Unix design but the book is not explicitly about it.
Unfortunately it is a lost lesson. Today, programming became just the act of gluing bloated frameworks, libraries and doing severs configuration. The small, simple and powerful K&R approach is totally lost in a world dominated by bloatware (e.g: Java/.Net/Boost).
K&R is a book that influenced me a lot, but its most important lesson is not laid down very explicitly. IMHO, this lesson is its notion of programming style: terse, small, efficient. It permeates the whole book and C/Unix design but the book is not explicitly about it.
Unfortunately it is a lost lesson. Today, programming became just the act of gluing bloated frameworks, libraries and doing severs configuration. The small, simple and powerful K&R approach is totally lost in a world dominated by bloatware (e.g: Java/.Net/Boost).