Re: variable initialization / I'm a n00b

Eric Sosman said:

<snip>

K&R ceased to be the definitive work on C some seventeen
and a half years ago.

It is, however, *a* definitive work on C, in the eyes of many working
programmers the world over who have never so much as glanced at the
Standard, but whose well-thumbed K&Rs are an indispensable feature of their
desktops.

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at the above domain, - www.
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