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by edwinnathaniel 5191 days ago
As to my understanding, Programming Pearls focused lies between the range of elegant code and algorithms/problem solving as opposed to secured coding practice in the C programming language.
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lwat 5191 days ago
Still, someone like Knuth will argue that correctness should not be sacrificed for elegance.
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edwinnathaniel 5191 days ago
Feel free to crucify John Bentley.

I know I'll learn more out of the book if I don't care of the small nitpicks like "gets()".

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