The Annotated ANSI C Standard: American National Standard for Programming Languages-C : Ansi/Iso 9899-1990

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Summary: The cheapest and best way to get the ANSI standard
Review: Before ordering this book from Amazon, I read all the other reviews. To be honest, I bought it because it was a lot cheaper than the ANSI standard ($130). Frankly, I do not understand why it is rated that low by the other readers. It includes the complete, unmodified standard, and it very well annotated by Schildt. The author, however, sometimes states things that are certainly not derived from the standard. Possibly they are derived from his almost 20 years programming in C and his deep knowledge of compilers. In my opinion, this book is a must for everybody willing to program in C and expecting his programs to run in every platform

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Summary: A cheap copy of ANSI/ISO 9899:1990
Review: Forget the annotations - they are at best worthless and at worst wrong, but $40 for a copy of the ANSI/ISO standard for C is a bargain. I use it regularly, but I don't bother with the right-hand pages.

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Summary: The Contradicted ANSI C Standard.
Review: The American National Standards Institute sellsISO 9899:1990 (the C language standard) for around$130. Schildt's annotated version sells for about $30-40. The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard. The difficult or obscure points are often ignored; occasionally, "clarifying" text is added which flatly contradicts the meaning of the text. To comprehend how bad this really is, understand that 9899:1990 is the Standard; 9899-1990, as the book refers to it, would refer to the one thousand, nine hundred and ninetieth revision of that standard. Truly, incompetent from cover to cover, even including the spine. The redeeming feature? Despite (in at least one edition) a missing page of the standard, a few missing punctuation marks, and a few other botches, this does contain the text of the standard as it stood in 1990.