@aka_pugs Do you remember your first reaction when learning C?
And what languages were you already familiar with?

@aka_pugs do you remember what you though of it at the time?

@aka_pugs Wow. I own a first edition but that's like alpha edition right there

@aka_pugs The sacred texts!

@aka_pugs awesome! Thanks for sharing it!

@aka_pugs Best programming book ever written...

@aka_pugs That is just so rich. I've a copy of the 2nd ed. I used the book to learn, but also kept it because a cousin of mine who was just starting out at Bell, was briefly mentioned in the 2nd ed. Preface for helping with the typesetting.

@aka_pugs is there a PDF of that ?

@aka_pugs @mos_8502 I wonder, does the index entry for Recursion recurse in that version?

@aka_pugs the source of the one true gospel of cuddling elses

@aka_pugs I like this bit https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/103509861237806820

@aka_pugs aka 'ritchie'

@aka_pugs This book was my bible in the early years of my endeavours in C. It is still on my bookshelf and will always remain part of my life.

@aka_pugs my copy purchased in ‘87 has yellowing pages, as does my copy of Kernigan and Pike - the Unix programming environment. Bought towards the end of my degree, still treasured.

@aka_pugs I have a well-thumbed 1978 bell labs technical journal, dedicated to C and Unix

@aka_pugs That is a piece of history.

@aka_pugs That is just so incredibly cool to me. Worked 20 years at Sun (Oracle) in the network storage division. It's great to find you here.

@aka_pugs @crgentle

@aka_pugs I think we have a copy of this version in our museum display for John Lions in the School of Computer Science and Engineering in #unsw #Sydney. John wrote the Lions books on #Unix.

@aka_pugs 😍​