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Comment by SaulJLH | Hacker News Reader

Site is very sparse, I "think" I know what this is for, but I'm probably wrong, can anyone explain?

Type in some syntax in the C programming language, it will translate it into English to help you get a better mental picture of what is going on.

That's literally it? Thought might be more to it, hmm still interesting, thanks!

Well it goes the other way too. English to arcane C declaration. And that's what many of us have used it for decades (and decades...). Try:

    declare xyzzyx as pointer to pointer to array 153 of const double

I think of it as a programmers aide much like regex101.com or crontab.guru

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