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C is not what I would call a very readable language. I don’t think you could drop someone who newly learned C and have them be effective looking at glibc for ex

• queuebert 3y ago
  Because of the use or abuse of macros, different C codebases can look very different, and to learn it you have to figure out all the quirky macros. If people stick to standard C with few macros and verbose variable names, it's really not bad.
  • duped 3y ago
    void* (*identifier) (void*); typedef struct { /* ... */ } my_struct_t; static return_type name_of_function (type *restrict argument) { int a, b, c; /* body */ } Just some examples of illegible syntax that's "standard" C. C is not a pretty language. It's small, but it's ugly as sin.
    • dcow 3y ago
      It's nearly impossible to actually parse anything more complex than a pointer to a struct in C because it wasn't written for humans, it is a relic of using a convenient recursive descent parser to parse C's syntax that we end up with `void* (*id) (void*)`...