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• K&R: [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language", esp.
  he classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978...
• New Testament n. [C programmers] The second edition of K&
  R's "The C Programming Language" (Prentice-Hall, 1988...
• New Testament: n. [C programmers] The second edition of K&R's "The C Programming Language" (Prentice-Hall, 1988
  ISBN 0-13-110362-8), describing ANSI Standard C. See {K&R}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Red Book n. 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
  QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
• Old Testament n. [C programmers] The first edition of K&
  R, the sacred text describing Classic C....
• The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. -- Brian Kernigha
• Old Testament: [C programmers] n. The first edition of {K&R}, the sacred text describing {Classic C}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• C provides the infinitely-abusable GOTO statement, and labels to branch to.
  Formally, the GOTO is never necessary, and in practice it is almost always easy to write code without it....
• Let the machine do the dirty work. -- Kernighan and Ritchie, "Elements of Programming Style