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		MarkusWandel on Jan 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a... "Software Tools" by Kernighan & Plauger, perhaps. The original was in Ratfor, which is a Fortran dialect. That being similar syntax but more limited than C is not a bad intro language.

abecedarius on Jan 17, 2023 [–]

There's a later edition Software Tools in Pascal which had some improvements. (According to the preface iirc. I didn't read that one since I found the earlier book first.)

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