C: A Reference Manual, 5th Edition Samuel B. Harbison/Guy L.Steele Jr. Format:   Paperback, 560pp    Pub. Date:   February 2002 Publisher:   Pearson Education ISBN:    013089592X Book Availability Amazon.com    $31.49 BarnesandNoble.com   $35.99 BooksAMillion.com   $33.52 eCampus.com   $31.49

You will want this if you decide to become more than a casual C programmer. Dave R.

This is absolutely the best book on the C language I've ever seen. The coverage is complete and detailed, the appendices accurarately and succinctly detail the ANSI standard C libraries. Basically, if you're writing C code, you need this book. It's displaced K&R on my desk as my C reference; it's easier to read and better organized. Be forewarned, this is not a tutorial. It's aimed at someone who already knows the language, and needs a detailed description for those nagging questions you can't answer anyplace else. Eric

This book has no equal. If you need exact information about any fine point of C, the depth and precision of this book is unique. Also, I'm not aware of any other reference on C that clearly tracks the differences between K&R (original) C, traditional C, and ISO C. If you have to deal with legacy code, it can be invaluable to understand why older code does certain things the way it does. (You thought your predecessor did something stupid, only to find that it only looks that way because of a change in the language.) Anonymous