Re: "Why not? K&R is ~250 pages long"
I prefer the Laziness is the Mother of Invention approach. Something pisses you off or makes your life difficult? Fuck it over with a bit of code and or a checklist. My major bugbear in python is the fucking indentation - so a small bit of python or whatever run as a macro to check its a multiple of 4 or tabs or convert one to the other depending on project convention on IDE file save and that's about 5 hrs saved a week on one project I played with that took forever to get to your code and fuckup. Adding preprocessing in make was a a great time save too.
Computers are really good a finding your mistakes - make use of it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
