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Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs by kaba0 on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:46PM (#27475604)
Written over many many years by experts of a field, and the end result is at most somewhat complex, nowhere near the complexity of even the monolith SPA of your favorite website.
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Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs by dnautics on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:32PM (#27476197)
GP said:

> meaningful complexity

Not, "the most complex". If an OS that can lock down DARPA self-flying helicopter software is not meaningful enough for you....

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Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs by kaba0 on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:40PM (#27476292)
Less than 10 000 lines of code. But let’s say we accept it as an exception — it is most definitely not the “standard way” of writing C programs.
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Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs by dnautics on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:41PM (#27476308)
From GP:

> It is not possible to remove ub from the spec

did not say "it is not standard to remove ub"...

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