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Out-of-context quote. (Even if the original is slightly strangely written.) The "update it" refers to the book The C Programming Language, not to the C language itself; C itself has seen an update as recently as 2011.

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It's not out of context at all. It's bizarre to assume that every book ever written about a subject will be updated constantly by it's (currently septagenarian) authors in perpetuity and/or that a failure to update it is an indication of the culture in general and not the authors having literally anything else to do.

It's not like books on C stopped being written by 1990.

Yes, but The C Programming Language is almost always recommended as the book to read.

Still an odd statement, since one of the authors is deceased.

It's fractal.

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