Check the second comment on that post. I'm glad someone else looked at that guy's C and thought "Whoooaaa, oh no."
How can we take posts like this seriously?
How can we take posts like this seriously?
He provided recommendations to fix the mistakes instead of just dissing the whole thing. If you want people to write better code, share what you know.
Makes me wish Zed had a "Learn C the Hard Way" to complement what he's doing with Python.
I sure would like a 'hard way' courseware for C. (in addition to my trusty copy of K&R C for reference)
Thank you for calling attention to the second comment.
C is serious business.
(Incidentally, I've written event-driven programs with libev in both C and Perl. My load is usually so low that doing it all in Perl does not affect the number of requests I can handle, nor does it impact latency. The IO is the bottleneck; the article even says it only uses 2% CPU. Why risk insecurity when you don't know C and it doesn't even improve throughput?)