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zxexz · 2023-02-24 01:14:20

I love this, thank you. It’s a topic I’ve oft thought about, and I’m having fun reading through the code - I was just thinking earlier today that I need to brush up on my C, as I was going through some of my own, old, code, I can barely follow.

Thanks for posting!

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altxwally | karma 46 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2012-01-06 08:57:59

Thanks for providing the example, this thread was very entertaining and made me become more interested in learning more about how C works.

fexl | karma 870 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2013-11-18 11:17:44

Brilliant job. I've been a C programmer for over 30 years and I love your approach here.

mraza007 | karma 1179 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2020-12-17 23:25:56

Very interesting article and as someone who’s a beginner in C you definitely did a great job explaining

999900000999 | karma 3774 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2022-05-10 09:05:33

Thank you !

If never been good at C, but I'm enjoying reading though this

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bsharitt | karma 1408 | avg karma 5.37 · | 2017-03-27 20:44:56

I've been thinking about that as a C refresher. I haven't really worked in C in over a decade and that looks like a fun way to get back into it.

coliveira | karma 8490 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2009-07-10 15:45:55+00:00

This is a really interesting piece of code. The style of C programming looks unreadable for the uninitiated, but is in fact very close to what in do in mathematics. I will try to play with this style myself (not for working code, of course).

dandigangi | karma 209 | avg karma 0.8 · | 2018-05-05 22:04:35+00:00

Found this article really interesting! It got me to write my first C program.

hexagonal-sun | karma 83 | avg karma 10.38 · | 2019-09-12 13:31:22+00:00

Thanks! It's still a work in progress but should hopefully help people to get to grips with C.

aardshark | karma 314 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2018-02-05 14:20:15+00:00

I'd love to read an article like this for C-style languages.

Jonovono | karma 999 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2012-05-14 16:16:52+00:00

This is awesome, thanks! I just started learning C and am just beginning going through "The C programming language" so thanks for the advice! I definitely plan to improve the program, or feel free to submit a revision!

geedy | karma 330 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2015-11-24 18:43:55

Wow, thank you for the feedback. I take a lot of pride in making the code readable. Maintaining a large C project by oneself for notorably fickle devices has been challenging, so you need to get all the of help you can.

thinkpad20 | karma 2032 | avg karma 3.37 · | 2014-06-19 03:29:12

Very interesting write-up, thanks! Makes me want to get back into C programming :) How did you manage to learn all of this stuff, for a new, closed-source and relatively undocumented (e.g. @asmname) language?

cies | karma 7348 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2014-05-07 21:59:44+00:00

Very well written C code, a joy to read it (ok, for as much C can be a joy to read).

Thanks for sharing.

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lelanthran | karma 8258 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2023-07-17 08:05:48

The first in a series of blogs posts I am putting together around the C programming language (Not the book!)

the-printer | karma 484 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2022-12-03 08:07:16

Thank you for this. C programming sounds almost like some sort of combat sport. Riveting.

FridgeSeal | karma 5766 | avg karma 3.12 · | 2019-05-06 22:11:25

I took this to be a chunk of some wider bit of code in which c and d were defined previously and we’re interested in this section in particular.

agumonkey | karma 29727 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2014-09-30 19:38:44+00:00

Very pretty C code. Rarely I find myself thinking 'C is beautiful'

moadeel | karma 15 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2012-03-05 18:33:05+00:00

wow .. thanks. That's quite a summary on the mechanics of how it works.

Do you mean to say, it would be a bad idea to start with C coding?

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jopsen | karma 4072 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2017-09-16 15:08:08

Lots of code is written in C :)