Ask HN: Zed Shaw's critique of K&R

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7 years ago

I've read of Zed Shaw's critique of K&R in "Learn C the Hard Way", and I've gathered that he had indeed raised an interesting range of issues, regardless of the backlash.

I've tried tracking that critique down to no avail. A link to Shaw's website that I found wasn't accessible,[0] nor was any archive.org copy of it.[1]

Does anyone happen to have a copy of or a link to it? I'd be interested in reading through it.

(Disclaimer: I'm not interested in refueling a debate, I just would like to read the critique or find out its salient points.)

[0] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/*/c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html

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