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No, but I don't think the K&R one is worthwhile either. It's far too outdated and teaches some bad practices. C99 in particular brought major improvements to the C language that you should be using. And C11 and C17/18 continued to refine the language in incremental ways.



> I don't think the K&R one is worthwhile either. It's far too outdated and teaches some bad practices.

It’s old, but I didn’t see anything horrible in the book. What bad practices does it teach?



Not a fan of Learn C the Hard Way, but I will agree with you that K&R is a bit light on details of how/why to write safe C code. I stand by K&R being the best book for learning C that I’ve read, though it goes nicely with a good application security curriculum ;)




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