From (The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie):

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and to use it well.

How do you exactly understand that? I'm especially confused by the adverb more placed in between decade and experience. I would understand it perfectly well if it read with a decade-long experience, but as it stands, the grammar looks a little bit fishy to me for some reason. Please, give me a grammatical breakdown of what's going on. Do you think that decade more is functioning as an adjective and therefore can be hyphenated to show that it is actually an adjective?

Source: The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and to use it well.

How do you exactly understand that? I'm especially confused by the adverb more placed in between decade and experience. I would understand it perfectly well if it read with a decade-long experience, but as it stands, the grammar looks a little bit fishy to me for some reason. Please, give me a grammatical breakdown of what's going on. Do you think that decade more is functioning as an adjective and therefore can be hyphenated to show that it is actually an adjective? I'm kind of getting lost here.

From (The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie):

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and to use it well.

How do you exactly understand that? I'm especially confused by the adverb more placed in between decade and experience. I would understand it perfectly well if it read with a decade-long experience, but as it stands, the grammar looks a little bit fishy to me for some reason

From (The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie):

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and to use it well.

How do you exactly understand that? I'm especially confused by the adverb more placed in between decade and experience. I would understand it perfectly well if it read with a decade-long experience, but as it stands, the grammar looks a little bit fishy to me for some reason. Please, give me a grammatical breakdown of what's going on. Do you think that decade more is functioning as an adjective and therefore can be hyphenated to show that it is actually an adjective?

Example (The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernigha and Dennis M. Ritchie):

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and to use it well.

How do you exactly understand that? I'm especially confused by the adverb more placed in between decade and experience. I would understand it perfectly well if it read with a decade-long experience, but as it stands, the grammar looks a little bit fishy to me for some reason

From (The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie):

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and to use it well.

How do you exactly understand that? I'm especially confused by the adverb more placed in between decade and experience. I would understand it perfectly well if it read with a decade-long experience, but as it stands, the grammar looks a little bit fishy to me for some reason