“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”

-Edsger W. Dijkstra

Is this a NTFS meme that I’m too ext4 to understand?

Why C ‘hackers’? Why not just regular C users?

If you ask me, the only reason for objects to exist are for preventing stale references. Anything more than this is unnecessary.

I used to think I was just a fanboy. But as time went on and I gained more and more experiences, I’ve only become all the more sure that ANSI C is the only language I ever want to write anything in.

I/O Issues are problems that come with the territory for scripting languages like python. Its why I prefer to use bash for scripting instead, because in bash, all I/O are strings. And if there are ever any conflicts, well that’s what awk/sed/Perl are for.

I was taught coding using IDEs. After I discovered that they aren’t even necessary for debuging and compiling, I said “What’s the point?” And I’ve just been using text editors ever since.

Having a similar moment right now. I’m trying to figure out how to compute the transformation matrix for reflecting a bitmap of any given dimension across the y axis, but all the tutorials that come up in my search just tell me to import some python library. Its like nobody wants to learn how to do anything anymore.

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More like “similar bloat”

I know I’m a fanboy, but I fell in love with C from the first time I tried it. I especially like its bare-bones grammar that never gets in your way. I appreciate how much it has taught me about how computers work. It helped me realize my aspirations to be an electrical engineer.

Nor can we host our projects on gittea, or run windows apps in WINE

I don’t want to give the impression of being elitist, nor am I trying to make myself look super skilled, but whenever I hear people criticizing C for being unsafe, or for lacking some library, I can’t help but think that’s a skill issue, not an actual problem with the language.

I firmly believe AI will replace managers before it replaces engineers.

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Seriously. why isn’t there any C love around here?

Everything I’ll ever make will be done in C. Try and stop me.