I am a professional software developer for over 16 years, and learned C in the last 3 or so years for interests sake. I would most likely fall into the category of C developers that think they know enough tricks to get by, but probably write terrible code without realizing it.

> Yes, you can write things in C and C++ that are very fast, but statistically, it is unlikely that you have the skill and discipline to do so consistently and at the same time deliver quality and robustness.

I would love to know how to get to this level. C is such an elegant language, and I really enjoy programming in it. Seems like there must be a way to get really good at C... But how?