The computing world has undergone a revolution since the publication of The C Programming Language in 1978.
The growing popularity of C, the changes in the language over the years, and the creation of compilers by groups not involved in its design, combined to demonstrate a need for a more precise and more contemporary definition of the language than the first edition of this book provided.
The standard formalizes constructions that were hinted but not described in the first edition, particularly structure assignment and enumerations.
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