Talk:The C Programming Language

message: If somebody write the spanish translation of this page, please say in big words that the spanish translation is a total mess and insult, it is totally non-understandable, even a non-english speaker can understand it better in english than its translation to spanish, i have buy it and i have lost time trying to read it, i have needed some days that with "arreglo" they means "array" (a total different word, apart that these parts needs to remain in english)
: If you have a Wikipedia account (which is unknown, as you didn't sign your comment), and know Spanish at a professional or first language level, you can, and, in fact, should edit corrections into the Spanish version of this article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia where anyone with sufficient knowledge of a subject can update an article with new facts, as long as they're properly sourced from a reputable source. Julesmazur (talk) 02:58, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation mess 

message: You say: As of 2006, there is no new edition covering C99. How do you know this? Is there an Internet article (because I can't find one)?
:K&R 2 was the last K&R published. There is no seminal book covering C99, and there won't be, as Dennis M. Ritchie has passed away (in October 2011). If you're arguing that there were subsequent editions of K&R, the burden of proof is on you. Provide evidence supporting a 3rd and/or 4th edition. Julesmazur (talk) 02:53, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to clarify, this book was written by Kernighan and Ritchie while they were employed by AT&T Bell Labs, and as a result AT&T Bell Labs holds the copyright, and as Ritchie has passed away and Kernighan hasn’t been with AT&T Bell Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs) in years, it is even less likely there will be a follow-on edition to this book.  (In the meantime Kernighan has moved on to other languages, more recently embracing Go, for example)  —PowerPCG5 (talk) 02:27, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do you know this? 

message: The influence of The C Programming Language on programmers, a generation of which "cut their teeth" on C in universities and industry [...]
I'm not a native English speaker, and I don't understand what "cutting their teeth" means.  Could somebody please replace this expression with a more formal, understandable form? rbonvall 12:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It means to learn something at the beginning of one's career, influencing one's future habits.  It's a widespread English idiom that can be found in good English dictionaries under "cut", and it's the best phrasing to use in this sentence, so I don't think it should be changed personally. Redquark 18:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Babies cut their teeth in a fairly predictable order...~~ Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 06:53, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Informal wording 

message: Ritchie refers to this as the "white book", at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdelacey (talk • contribs) 00:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "white book" not "white bible"? 

message: External links need to be updated or removed. http://cm.bell-labs.com no longer contains any of the four external links posted. I'll see if I can find correct links later today. Blutrot (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 00:26, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links out of date 

message: "Hello, World" is a punchline in The National Anthem - Robert Klein 1974 Mind over Matter - AllMusic pre-dating the book. ~~ Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 06:49, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Hello, World

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message: Undid this edit by User:Pppery to restore the disambiguation tag.  This tag is required because at one point “C programming language” used to redirect to this article, when it should have redirected to the programming language itself.  By removing this disambiguation tag, a lot of search engines such as DuckDuckGo over the past month have been redirecting searches for “C programming language” to this article rather than to the article on the programming language, which restoring the tag will hopefully fix back to the way things were over time.  Thanks  —PowerPCG5 (talk) 02:13, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
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message: I removed two ill-expressed and irrelevant sentences from the lede. In fact, though, the whole of the second paragraph of the lede is irrelevant to the topic of this article, which is the K&R book, not the language. I propose to remove that paragraph. -- Jmc (talk) 23:55, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct. That was added earlier this month and is not appropriate. Johnuniq (talk) 03:01, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  @Johnuniq Thanks! I didn't realise it was so recent. I'll now go ahead and remove it. -- Jmc (talk) 04:08, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed deletion of second paragraph of lede

message: There are three editions not two:
first edition aka "old testament"
second edition first printing "apocrypha". ANSI C draft standard
second edition later printings "new testament". With some further edits for differences between the draft and final standard.
Simply calling it "second edition" is misleading - it's second edition, second and later printings.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/ywRO67MgwBg 92.41.4.237 (talk) 00:45, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editions