C programming langauge

Why C?

“The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language” - Some Were Meant for C ; via ATS As a Systems Programming Language .

Tooling

• post modern C tooling - draft 5
• A Modern C Development Environment | Interrupt

Why not C?

C Is Not a Low-level Language - ACM Queue

Books

• Learn C Programming With 9 Excellent Open Source Books - OSS Blog
• comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions
• C Craft notes by Ben Lynn on C vs many other languages. “ C is the desert island language ”
• Object Oriented C , 1993 by Axel-Tobias Schreiner

People and blogs

• https://c9x.me/ by Quentin Carbonneaux . qbe compiler backend etc.,
• The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar

Important

• cdecl ; C gibberish ↔︎ English
• ~sircmpwn/cstyle – style guidelines on the lines of “SHOULD” and “SHOULD NOT”s.

C libraries

• Better String library
• Valgrind
• zeromq
• lock-free data structure library
• uthash – simple data structures
• Compilers targetting C
• TrustInSoft/tis-interpreter: An interpreter for finding subtle bugs in programs written in standard C

C programming practices

• C Programming Substance Guidelines from the Stronglink (a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system) project
• Lecture notes on Practical Programming in C .
• A rant on C (not by me)
• a critique of “how not to c” ; Jan 2016.
• how to c ; HN Another interesting approach to learning C if you already know Python is to re-implement the C compiler described in this article. If you’re looking for a way to learn 10 things while also learning C then this 500 line Python complier is A++.

Cool stuff

• How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
• How to read C declarations.. say int *(*func())(); – C Right-Left Rule (Rick Ord’s CSE 30 - UC San Diego) – “func is function returning pointer to function returning pointer to int”.
• Memory Allocation at samwho.dev – intuitive visual guide on how memory allocation works step by step.
• Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
• Writing a simple 16 bit VM in less than 125 lines of C | andreinc

Programming Language Theory

• Subtleties of the ANSI/ISO C standard by Robbert Krebbers, Freek Wiedijk of Radboud University Nijmegen.

we argue that the C standard does not allow Turing complete implementations, and that its evaluation semantics does not preserve typing. Finally, we claim that no strictly conforming programs exist. That is, there is no C program for which the standard can guarantee that it will not crash.

Discussions

• Comments on The cost of forsaking C | Hacker News