> - The awk language > - Software Tools in Pascal, Kernighan and Plauger (I think there is > a version of this book in C, isn't it?)
I have both of them. The first version of Software Tools is written in ratfor which is almost a C dialect but doesn't support recursion and structures. None the less it's impressive what can be achieved with so few language primitives. The awk book is valuable and extremely condensed. It is sad that people usually read the Arnold's crap instead the real book.