Editing The C Programming Language (section)

== Reception ==
''[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]'' magazine stated in August 1983, "[''The C Programming Language''] is the definitive work on the C language. Don't read any further until you have this book!"<ref name="ward198308">{{cite news |last=Ward |first=Terry A.  |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYTE_08-08_The_C_Language#page/n267/mode/2up |title=Annotated C / A Bibliography of the C Language |work=Byte |date=August 1983 |access-date=31 January 2015 |pages=268}}</ref> [[Jerry Pournelle]] wrote in the magazine that year that the book "is still the standard ... a bit terse". He continued, "You can learn the C language without getting Kernighan and Ritchie, but that's doing it the hard way. You're also working too hard if you make it the ''only'' book on C that you buy."<ref name="pournelle198312">{{cite news |last=Pournelle |first=Jerry |author-link=Jerry Pournelle |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-12/1983_12_BYTE_08-12_Easy_Software#page/n519/mode/2up |title=The User Looks at Books |work=Byte |date=December 1983 |access-date=24 July 2016 |pages=519}}</ref>