daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) (03/15/88)
I just received a little blurb from Prentice-Hall Publishers about K&R, *second* edition. According to P-H, it was published in Jan. 1988. Ok, I have the King James version. Is this NASB, NIV, or what? Who has heard anything about this 2E? Seen it? What was wrong with the first edition? :-) -- --------------------"Well, it looked good when I wrote it"--------------------- Verbal: Dave Burton Net: ...!ihnp4!laidbak!daveb V-MAIL: (312) 505-9100 x325 USSnail: 1901 N. Naper Blvd. #include <disclaimer.h> Naperville, IL 60540
dmr@alice.UUCP (03/19/88)
Someone just got a blurb from Prentice-Hall advertising a second edition of the White Book. I guess P-H is doing their job! Next to me is a warm-off-the-press copy of that very book, delivered today by our editor. I'm assured that bulk shipments will start in a couple of weeks. The C Programming Language, second edition B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchie Prentice-Hall, 1988 ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paper) $28.00 272 pages ISBN 0-13-110370-9 (cloth) $40.00 Overall the structure resembles that of the first edition, but it has been thoroughly overhauled. The language it describes is that of the ANSI X3J11 draft of December*. It has new examples (including a simple version of cdecl), more discussion of pointers, a list of changes from the original language, discussions of language changes interleaved into the reference manual, a YACCable grammar, and a description of the ANSI library routines. The cover is still white. The first edition remains in print. ---- * "noalias" is mentioned only in footnotes. Dennis Ritchie
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (03/20/88)
In article <1379@laidbak.UUCP> daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes: >I just received a little blurb from Prentice-Hall Publishers >about K&R, *second* edition. According to P-H, it was published >in Jan. 1988. Okay, since the cat is now out of the bag: Yes, Kernighan & Ritchie revised the C book and sent it off to Prentice-Hall to be published as the second edition. I haven't seen the final publication yet, although it might have been printed and distributed by now (I don't know what the turnaround time is), but I did review a draft copy so I pretty much know what the second edition contains. Generally: virtually all the minor annoyances of the first edition have been cleaned up; more examples have been added; and the language definition has been changed to be ANSI C (with possible small deviations due to having to work from drafts rather than the final standard, which hasn't yet been produced). I would say this edition is significantly better than the first, which was of course a classic.
swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) (03/22/88)
Why didn't you wait until the ANSI draft was absolutly, positivly finished? (I am assuming you are the Dennis Ritchie who is the co-author.) Not really a criticism. I'm just curious. Frank Swarbrick (and his cat) swarbric@tramp.UUCP swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU ...!{ncar|nbires}!boulder!tramp!swarbric "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends..."
romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) (03/22/88)
One of my friends, who happens to be in P-H marketing, has had access to some of the "historical documents" related to the first edition. The first advertisement comprised just a few lines buried inside of a much larger display. Also, one marketing letter (perhaps from one of the authors) noted that there were approximately 130 UNIX sites, and that P-H should expect to sell an average of 9 copies per site! (At last count, over a million copies of the first edition had been printed...)
dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt) (03/22/88)
From article <4992@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, by swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick):
> Why didn't you wait until the ANSI draft was absolutly, positivly finished?
Because it wouldn't be a draft anymore. :-)
(will it ever be finished? Tune in tomorrow, for the same bat.news, on
your same batcomputer.. ;-)
-dg-
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