On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, terogers wrote:

> >         Ok, I'll say _largely_ a 90's phenomenon.  As an opinion, I
> >         would say that even through the late 80's it was K&R C that
> >         was the 'reference' for C.  Note that I'm talking about
> >         programmers in the field, not necessarily guys who work for
> >         companies that write compilers. ;)
>
> Uh, Guys, Harbison & Steele is on the bookshelf of every C programmer I
> know..

I just love being an odd statistic!  I started out with K&R back when that
was damned near all there was, and along about the time I probably should
have been reading H&S - I understand they did a fine job of sorting out
what was and wasn't generally portable in practice - I was far more
interested in the ANSI standardization effort.  So I never have owned a
copy of H&S, nor even held one for more than a couple tens of minutes, and
I was writing C under CP/M, DOS, AMOS, Xenix, and I don't recall what all
else back in the eighties.

Not that I necessarily recommend this approach...  :-)