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Where were you able to find a copy of K&R's Necronomicon?

I thought it was banned for this very reason.

I invoke an incantation of Undefined Behaviour from one of its blackened pages and chant three Alan Kays to manifest it in the physical realm

What is K&R's Necronomicon? Link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon but written by the authors of C

Thanks but still confused. I'm a little familiar with Lovecraft as an author, but what is "K&R" and "C"?

"K&R" generally refers to the classical book about the C programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

Their book, "The C Programming Language" was a must read bible decades ago.

"K" is also a HN reader from what I know.

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