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> The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, aka "The White Book"

I've always heard it referred to as "K&R".

Yeah. I've never heard it called "the white book".

Also there are a couple of other great books which are white eg Kernighan and Pike "The Unix Programming Environment" and "The practise of programming", and all of TCP/IP Illustrated. In fact pretty much any book I can think of published by Addison and Wesley is white.

Yes, I've also never heard it being given that nickname either at first. I found it at near-random when looking up "White Book" [0] on Wikipedia.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_book

I have a copy that's a greeny blue color, 6th edition I think?

or, The C Bible

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