It’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed since I first wrote Programming in C. At that
time the Kernighan & Ritchie book The C Programming Language was the only other
book on the market. How times have changed!
When talk about an ANSI C standard emerged in the early 1980s, this book was split
into two titles:The original was still called Programming in C, and the title that covered
ANSI C was called Programming in ANSI C.This was done because it took several years
for the compiler vendors to release their ANSI C compilers and for them to become
ubiquitous. I felt it was too confusing to try to cover both ANSI and non-ANSI C in
