Re:Deconstructing "K&R C"
by peapicker on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @12:22PM
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"they'll be pretty good at C unlike you"
Thanks for the code review of my last 23 years of work on C projects. Nice ego that your book must be the only way to learn this.
I mostly disagree with your statement about "most good C code" not using stdlib strings/apis.
To be fair, from your comments here, it looks like you aren't really saying that -- you are saying we have to be careful when using them. This I know, and carefully guard against, and I do try to break my code regularly. But to assert that "most good C code" doesn't use them fails to meet with my experience.
That said, _all_ bad C code (ab)uses them, probably due to carelessness and/or misunderstanding of how things work in C.
Thanks for the code review of my last 23 years of work on C projects. Nice ego that your book must be the only way to learn this.
I mostly disagree with your statement about "most good C code" not using stdlib strings/apis.
To be fair, from your comments here, it looks like you aren't really saying that -- you are saying we have to be careful when using them. This I know, and carefully guard against, and I do try to break my code regularly. But to assert that "most good C code" doesn't use them fails to meet with my experience.
That said, _all_ bad C code (ab)uses them, probably due to carelessness and/or misunderstanding of how things work in C.