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C
October 18, 2011
I’ll probably never be as good, I’ll certainly never stop trying. The things we take for granted today are the revolutions of yesterday.
A nasty string initialization bug in C
May 31, 2011
Today I encountered a bug that was quite difficult to find regarding strings. In order for strings to work they must be null-terminated, and this implies that an array of characters can contain a string with a length equal to the array size minus one, because there must be space for the null character. I […]
The shoulders of Knuth
January 25, 2011
One of the greatest virtues that a programmer should have is humility: it allows to be non-judgmental and prone to learn. Sometimes, because of pride and self confidence, it’s difficult or unnatural to feel humble in front of a fellow student, or a coworker, or your boss, or sometimes even your teacher. But if you […]
High-level vs Low-level programming
March 27, 2009
Scott James Remnant explains his view on C programming versus C# or Python programming. I’d like to comment on this topic too. I feel that in theory he’s wrong: low-level programming is inefficient respect to high-level programming. But in practice I think he’s right: a software coded in a low-level language is better respect to […]
The volatile keyword
March 3, 2009
The volatile keyword is a feature of the C language that is not considered by new developers until they bang their head against an apparently correct code that doesn’t work, and they don’t understand why. I think it is important to know the existence of the keyword and the principles behind it in order to […]
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October 21, 2012
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