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by ggreer 3957 days ago
I strongly encourage people to avoid Learn C the Hard Way. It's neither a good introduction to C nor a good guide to secure C. Reading through, I couldn't help but wince at the inaccuracies and oversights. I hate to say it, but the guide is irredeemable.

Who am I to say such things? Well... I learned C almost 20 years ago. I haven't spent the whole time since then writing it, but I'd like to think I'm pretty good. You may even use some of the stuff I've written, such as ag[1].

1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher