It helps to understand the rationale behind the language choices. Though, sure, if Linus Torvalds ever put substantial effort into writing a concise book on programming in C, I’d choose that over Kernigan & Ritchie’s great starter book.

Well, he's articulate and very experienced with software development who invented the original C++ out of necessity. In fact, he sounds like an ideal person to tech good programming practices using the language he helped design.

Maybe you should read his books.

TC++PL book is full of wisdom in general programming, easily transferable to other languages.

c++ is so bad. when i see threads like this one praising it, i feel bad for all the mental energy these people have put into understanding an unorganized and unelegant garbage dump of ideas. even his coworkers at bell labs tried to convince him c++ was a bad idea.

ken thompson wouldn't use it. then he invented go to spite him.