by Peter van der Linden

isbn: 0131774298
subject: Nonfiction, Computing
finished: 8/1/1999

I have mixed feelings about this book. It's well written and often humorous, and contains a lot of useful C knowledge as well as a number of great anecdotes about software development. On the other hand, books like this shouldn't be necessary, because C is an inappropriate language for many kinds of software development. It's like having a book about problems that you would encounter while trying to build a house using only a screwdriver: many of the problems would be non-issues if you use the right tool for each job. Also, Expert C Programming spends far too much time (almost a chapter) discussing the segmented x86 programming model -- it should have been completely obvious that this was obsolete by the time the book was published in 1994. Still, I would recommend this book to serious C programmers.