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Review title: Horrible, a waste of paper.
Product review: This book should have been called "Stupid Mistakes You Will Make In C the First Two Months @ Work". There is nothing expert about this book and the author is (...)claiming to be an expert himself. He wrote this book as part of Sun's push to get JAVA more market share. I have been writing C code for 15 years and as my review of Sept 11th, 1998 makes clear, I find this book offensive for its pretention and lack of substance. The correct title of this book would be "Fireplace Starter". If you can find it, try Harbison and Steele's book instead. Study the standard library carefully and emulate it. You will soon find yourself a good C programmer. (hint: if you are returning integers from functions, instead of pointers, you haven't gotten "it" yet. Study the string functions and you'll see what I mean.)
