I just KNOW I'm going to regret this.

woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> Actually, I specifially used the term "traditional C" to avoid calling
> it K&R, and particularly to avoid reference to the infamous 1st edition.
> If a few more people had bought the ill-fated "second" edition (1983, I
> think -- it was pulled from the shelves just as the ANSI group began
> working on a C standard, and I sorely regret not buying the copy I
> saw),

No such book exists. The first revision made after the initial edition
was the ANSI C version, which is labeled "Second Edition". I have a
copy of K&R before me printed just before the ANSI version came out it
is not labeled "Second Edition" and is textually identical to the
quotations previously given. The only "Second Edition" was the ANSI
version. I'm reasonably sure of this as I purchased my first copy of
K&R AFTER 1984. (Forgive me, I hacked on DEC-20s until then.)

But please, by all means, continue to reference a book only you have 
seen instead of being a gentleman and backing down when you've been
shown to be just plain wrong.

Perry