Deep C Secrets

I was browsing the programming books in Borders (as you do), looking for something a bit out of the ordinary.

What I found was Expert C Programming (Deep C Secrets) by Peter van der Linden.

It's a book on C that a Perl programmer could love! It's at times amusing, contains good anecdotes and puzzles to solve. What's more it contains the C code for a complete BASIC interpreter. No code contained in a book has been as cool since a UNIX book I bought in the early 90s had the MINIX source inside.

I didn't buy it since the inflated Australian tech book pricing meant that it exceeded this weeks discretionary budget, but I'll be back to buy it one day.

The amazon.com editorial sounds about right:

Defying the stereotypical notion that technical books tend to be boring, Expert C Programming offers a lively and often humorous look at many aspects of C--from how memory is laid out to the details of pointers and arrays. The author reveals his points through invaluable anecdotes, such as stories of costly bugs, and through folklore, such as the contents of Donald Knuth's first publication. Each chapter ends with a section entitled "Some Light Relief," which discusses topics (topics that some may consider to be "recreational"), such as programming contests. A fabulous appendix on job interview questions finishes the book.