Terry Poulin wrote:
> Michael Bevilacqua-Linn wrote:
>> Not often that I get to quote myself!
>>
>> I've always liked the O'Reilly Practical C book and, of course, The C
>> Programming Language (K&R) is classic and well worth the read.  And I seem
>> to have lost my copy :-/
>>
>> MBL
>>
>> On 9/29/07, Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom / gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sep 27, 1:21 am, julik <list... / julik.nl> wrote:
>>>> so that I
>>>> can (not too urgently) start in C with at least some level of self-
>>>> confidence and understanding?
>>> What's wrong with this group? No one has mentioned K&R ???
>>>
> 
> What I what I would like to know within 20-30 years....
> 
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
> 
> 
> TerryP.

I will have to admit hand-optimizing for a drum machine (IBM 650) 
although I *did* let the assembler do the rest of the things it could do.