Does the book "The C programming language 2nd edition" by K&R cover the whole language?

Question

If so, in theory, after reading (and learning) that book I would have all the syntactical knowledge I'll ever need?

Answer 1

It’s a good book and it will teach you a lot. There’s no book that will teach you all of a programming language, but it’s a good start. Afterwards, you can learn specific information you need to know (like if you need something for a project) through google

Answer 2

@Ariela But which parts are left out from the book? If I were to learn machine language for the x86 instruction set all I'd have to learn would be <100 instructions, I wonder how many I need for C.

Answer 3

Yeah, I know, I get it but what I'm wondering about is the size of C, like in order to fully understand the language I'd have to know the language entirely otherwise I'm just using functions whose functions I know but I don't understand how they work.

Answer 4

Thank you, I'll try to look into these more in depths cause I lack knowledge on this.

Answer 5

Programming isn’t about learning individual instructions. It’s about learning how to combine them and use them in creative and efficient ways. That’s why the best way to learn is to make projects and just learn what you need for them.

Answer 6

@Taylor

I don't get it though entirely.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/VTxd0.jpg
This picture shows quite some x86 instructions. How can there be thousands of these?