charlesL

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by charlesL 11y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. That would make all linux utils available to use as well.
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by charlesL 11y ago
Ugh... these kinds of extreme posts really piss me off. Yes, C is unsafe. Yes, there are safer higher level languages, but there's a reason C is used. Because it's REALLY freaking fast, and allows you to actually tune how memory
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by charlesL 11y ago
> And much of the time, I find it faster and easier to fix a broken makefile than to fix broken autohell. Exactly. 99% of the time, a broken makefile simply has an incorrect linker path or cflag. When it's not a path, the Makefile i
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by charlesL 11y ago
> Make is fairly easy to learn, at least in its basic form. Autoconf is horrendous. I completely agree. Make is extremely flexible on it's own. I don't understand the need to abstract the build system to generate thousand-line
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by charlesL 11y ago
Frankly, I don't use a lot of crazy libs or IDEs when writing C code. Most of my projects consist of one or two external libs and a few simple makefiles. I use Vim and clang/gcc for compiling and lldb/gdb for debugging. As fo
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by charlesL 11y ago
The issue with undefined behavior is it's kind of hard to... well... define. It's an odd combination of unsafe memory, float/integer rollover, and rules with memory allocation. I wasn't quite sure how to clearly state it
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by charlesL 11y ago
Ehh, you can never have too much C! ;)
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by charlesL 11y ago
Huh, I've never actually heard of using OCaml for system programming. Interesting!
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by charlesL 11y ago
Hey author of the slides here, glad you liked it :D I used http://remarkjs.com/ to make the slides. All you have to do is include the script, add a textfield with your content in markdown and it automatically converts to a