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The New C Standard
derek_farn writes "At a very late stage Addison Wesley decided not to publish my book, 'The New C Standard: An economic and cultural commentary'. Now that the copyright issues have been sorted out I am making the pdf freely available. You can download the pdf (mirror 1). The organization is rather unusual in that the commentary covers each sentence of the C Standard (actually the latest draft of C0X, excluding library) one by one (all 2022 of them). One major new angle is using the results from studies in cognitive psychology to try and figure out how developers comprehend code. The aim being to try and produce some coding guidelines that reduce costs (ie, reduce the time needed and bugs created). The book also contains the results of lots of measurements (over 400 figures and
tables) in an attempt to back the arguments being made -- another unusual feature since most software related books don't publish any figures to back up what they say. Other subsections discuss common implementations and differences between the latest draft standard and C90/C++. More background on the project is available from the Inquirer.
C is over with already, geez. Slow, cumbersome, and nobody has a compiler for it. You should be switching to Java by now. It's fast, portable, and the JVM is everywhere. The Novell JVM is the fastest. Dennis Ritchie's time is past. Let the dinosaur turn into oil already and upgrade to the technology that will take us into the 22nd century and beyond. JAVA!
...you don't have any cool graphics on your cover page.
That's the number of the beast multiplied by 2.426! Incredible!
I don't think this C-thing is going to catch on. :)
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
It seems that some men love C0X, but most men want nothing to do with C0X. The men that like C0X say there's nothing like the feel of the thick C0X standard in your hands.
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
where is the Karma Reset button
Around here that's known as a "trigger"...
Just junk food for thought...
No. This is obviously the NEW C standard they've been talking about. I haven't read the article, but clearly they've loosend up on punctuation. Also, any comparisons to directives starting with MAX must automatically default to a "less than" comparison.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
From the back of K&R: "C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book."
I guess K&R must be rolling over in their graves (or soon will).
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Do'h!
What?
Now that the copyright issues have been sorted out...
As I was reading this sentence, my heart stopped and my mind jumped for joy. I thought the RIAA/MPAA/etc. had finally given up, congress had rolled back copyright terms, and the GPL was finally successfully tested in court.
Then I read the rest... *sigh* oh well.
1983 called and it wants its 'new' standard back...
All your base are belong to us!
I got bored just reading the slashdot article about this book. No wonder Addison Wesley decided not to publish it.
Not counting the citations at the end, the book is 1,577 pages of "guidelines." Who's got that kind of time for a hobby? Who, having a job as a programmer, even has the time to read a book like that?
1577 pages? Ever hear of Lord of the Rings?
Mmm, this'll be nice for benchmarking my printer.
Direct away from face when opening.
And IIRC John Harrison (the Chronometer guy) wrote multi-page paragraphs, so some georgian and victorian writers can get fairly lengthy :-)
Wow, if you are thrilled by language specifications, they you will shit your pants at the bonus 80 pages of experimental psychology background!
;)
But seriously, good work dude
"Sir, none of our techniques are breaking the prisoner"
"I was worried about this, they must have trained him on The New C Standard"
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?