From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <1434425748.2402717.296560569.66195CDA@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan To: 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:05:48 +0530 In-Reply-To: <20150615232227.2D170B827@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20150615232227.2D170B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic Topicbox-Message-UUID: 58f2a708-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jun 16, 2015, at 04:52 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:06:48 +1200 Andrew Simmons > wrote: > > As the subject line says, wildly off-topic. But some-one here might know = > > the answer, and it=E2=80=99s been bothering me. > > > > Such are my failings, I=E2=80=99ve been watching the second series of = > > =E2=80=9CHalt and Catch Fire=E2=80=9D in order to catch up with what the = > > kids are up to these days. In the second episode one of the characters = > > opens what looks like a copy of K&R first edition, but the cover is = > > blue. I thought that the colour correction on my TV might be deceiving = > > me, or possibly the vertical hold was on the fritz, but he did it again = > > in the third episode, and the cover was still blue. > > > > So my question is, did there ever exist an edition of K&R in that colour = > > scheme, or is gcc to blame for the inaccuracy?= > > Amazon trade ins of The C programming Language shows a cyan > blue cover -- it says "Eastern Economic Edition" and it is the > second edition. Yes, I can confirm that. It is sold here in India. It used to be the same white cover as the international edition (my copy from 1993, eastern economy edition, has a white cover). -- Ramakrishnan