The C Programming Language

Kernighan, B. W., & Ritchie, D. M. (1988). The C Programming Language. Prentice Hall.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1988

ISBN

9780131103627

Link

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2030445Mmatched

Cited from

library_information_science, literature_literary_theory

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Law of Conservation of Complexity
  • A manual-memory language (C) puts the whole floor on the programmer: every malloc matched by a free, every ownership-and-lifetime decision borne by human reasoning.

    This sourceSpecifies manual memory management (malloc/free) that places the whole burden of object-lifetime decisions on the programmer.

• Metonymy
  • URLs, handles, foreign keys, and symbolic links all instantiate the same move — refer to the data through an attached locator rather than carrying the data itself.

    This sourceDefines pointers as addresses standing in for the data they reference, with dereferencing recovering the referent.

Domain-specific

• Increment and decrement operators
  • … and version, operator and prefix or postfix form, operand type and mutability, evaluation order, returned value, side effect, overflow, concurrency and overloading rules are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the same invariant under a changed scale, notation, jurisdiction, dataset, or implementation..

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