My Useless C Page

News!

I recently found a copy of the article I wrote in 1996 about how I learned to program. Thanks especially to Greg Bacon, who had saved a copy on his web site.

I removed the old link to the C9X draft; it's painfully obsolete.

Useful C links:

• Coming Soon: The Evolution of a Utility. A look at how a utility goes from a vague sense of "wouldn't this be nice", to a distributable piece of source. Okay, not coming soon, but coming, I hope.
• Programming in C.
• Henry Spencer's 10 Commandments for C Programmers.
• Henry Spencer's 10 Commandments for C Programmers [text version].
• My Infrequently Asked Questions List:
  • Text version.
  • HTML version.
• My known errata for K&R.
• My partial errata for C: The Complete Reference. (Easily the worst C book I've ever read, although I don't generally read bad C books.)
• My attempts at reusable code. These include my getopt clone. New addition! I wrote some utilities, here they are. Some C, some sh, mostly Unix-oriented.

Code I've Written:

• My C string library. They're like strings, only they can contain null bytes and they resize themselves.
• A getopt clone, to provide usable and portable option parsing.
• Some utilities I've written.
• A linked list library.
• The whole set in a weird little pseudo-package. No real documentation, but download it, unpack it, read the README, and have fun. Version 0.8.14.

The list of books has moved....

Other material

I have periodically planned to write a C reference manual, but it's just too hard to get around to; not enough free time. I guess you'll have to be content with the IAQ.

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