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Ben Klemens about his '21st Century C' book (modelingwithdata.org)
32 points by rainysunday 4955 days ago
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Great to see a book about C that includes insights and best practices the community at large has found since the more traditional textbooks were published. I may pick up the ebook version for a rainy weekend.

The title makes me cringe though. It inevitably evokes a picture of a poor sod writing a book on "20th century warfare" in 1912.

> It inevitably evokes a picture of a poor sod writing a book on "20th century warfare" in 1912.

No kidding. The back of the book has a prominent blurb about Autotools. That's about as retrogressive as it gets.

Submitted for the mock-up cover alone.

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794171

His other book, Modeling with data, is also freely available as a pdf: http://modelingwithdata.org/about_the_book.html

Of course they didn't use your mock up.

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