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The C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie)

The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

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You go back and you get a copy of the C programming language by Kernighan and Ritchie or Java.

Episode 269: Verbal Pollution (episode page, opens in a new tab) August 28, 2026, 2:26 p.m. CT 00:41:49 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Dave's example of learning from the original source: to learn C, get Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language, the earliest form of the technology, then move forward from there.