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senkion Obama ends NASA space race with slow road to Mars

You are Hungarian, right? ;)

senkion Cuil relaunches as 'cpedia.' The results are not pretty.

http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2010/04/08/introducing-cpedia-...

>I find Cpedia best on topics that I thought I knew about. I find out things I should have known but didn’t. I’ve noticed productivity has slowed in the company since we have had it up for internal testing, as people ask each other about stranger and stranger trivia, or exclaim, “I didn’t know your middle name was Hector?”

senkion 32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone

Well, the K&R book talk about the complicated declarations, and recommend the use of the typedef command. Also, it contains a simple program called "dcl", analogous to what you linked.

senkion 32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone

Why would you write code like this?

senkion 32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone

That was my first programming book, and I learned not only C from it, but programming in general. It's been translated into many languages, I read it in Hungarian. Check out the various covers: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/