Re:Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?
by pritovido on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:06PM
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I would advice AVOID C macros at all cost. They are so weak and hard to debug and problematic.
I write in several languages and read lots of C projects made by others and find the affirmation hard to believe: C is so simple that is very easy to read if the writer of code has a minimum of competency.
You can say that of projects like C++, specially things like C++11 that are languages by committee so complex that you can affirm that every C++ programmer is different or find programmers that could not understand each coder's code. Not so with C.
That happens to me with C++ and lisp code. It takes a while for me to understand what the author uses(or abuses) before being able to understand the code. That does not happen with C code.
Re:Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?
by mrr54 on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:07PM
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The Linux kernel uses lots of macros, many of them with lowercase names that are barely distinguishable from function names. Given the quality of that codebase, I think not using macros is a bit silly.
I write in several languages and read lots of C projects made by others and find the affirmation hard to believe: C is so simple that is very easy to read if the writer of code has a minimum of competency.
You can say that of projects like C++, specially things like C++11 that are languages by committee so complex that you can affirm that every C++ programmer is different or find programmers that could not understand each coder's code. Not so with C.
That happens to me with C++ and lisp code. It takes a while for me to understand what the author uses(or abuses) before being able to understand the code. That does not happen with C code.