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If that's from the freenode ##c wiki, you should probably take that as a ringing endorsement. ##c is laughable. I'm not sure they actually use C, or just think
by PeCaN 10y ago
If that's from the freenode ##c wiki, you should probably take that as a ringing endorsement.
##c is laughable. I'm not sure they actually use C, or just think about the C Abstract Machine and Glorious Specification.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI've already quoted Daniel Holden on ##c once under GPP, but his evidence on the matter, deserves, I think, a repost here: I remember witnessing a new C programmer ripped for several minutes on the channel for simply mentioning the heap and stack in their explanation. Instantly he was shot down with "implementation detail and not defined in the C standard" and told to ask his question in #unix. You can find the whole article at http://www.theorangeduck.com/page/ready-fight http://www.theorangeduck.com/page/ready-fight.
- PeCaN 10y agoThe funniest part is that the C in K&R is not really much different, let alone better, than in any of the books they recommend against. I guarantee K&R would be on their list of books to avoid if it wasn't written by… well, K&R. I've used & contributed to Daniel's stuff (mostly mpc¹) and his code is (IMO) quite high quality. ##c is a bit deluded. ¹ https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago##c isn't a bit deluded. They're very deluded.