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Review: Why the Lucky Stiff(tmewett.com)
3 points by tmewett 7mo ago|0 comments
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Homemade incremental programming, part 1: how and why to abolish update code(tmewett.com)
1 points by tmewett 2y ago|0 comments
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Developing on Windows: Comparing Native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL(tmewett.com)
10 points by tmewett 2y ago|1 comments
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React is more than UI–it's a side-effect framework(tmewett.com)
1 points by tmewett 3y ago|0 comments
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React-like declarative components for the whole family(tmewett.com)
1 points by tmewett 3y ago|0 comments
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by tmewett 4y ago
Thank you :) Though I should say, most of the code is by the original author Brian
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by tmewett 4y ago
Hah, "unnecessarily abstract" is my middle name :) I don't really like stack/heap terminology. "Heap" especially is a nightmare because (a) it also means some specific, irrelevant kind of data structure and (b)
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by tmewett 4y ago
>C does a wonderful job of looking like a high level language but it was designed to do low level stuff. There is an implicit assumption, to my mind, that the user has a deeper understanding of what is behind the "curtain" that
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by tmewett 4y ago
I didn't learn computer science at college/university - only via the internet, and C is quite different to learn that way vs other languages. That was my main motivation for writing :)
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by tmewett 4y ago
Thank you so much! I will definitely be amending a few things. WRT no section on undefined behaviour - you're so right, how could I forget?
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by tmewett 4y ago
Completely agree - that's exactly why I wrote this. Some of things I wrote even seem super obvious but with no real authority you wonder whether or not this is "the way" to do things. If you ever want to get some practical ex
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by tmewett 4y ago
Interesting, I didn't fully realise that. That it's arbitrary is annoying, I clearly had tried to rationalise it to myself! Thanks for the comments, will get around to amending
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by tmewett 4y ago
Ah, that was one of my less considered additions - thank you for the feedback!