How I program C
Overview
Eskil Steenberg's two-hour talk on his personal approach to writing C, covering code style, structure, naming, pointers and large-project organization. He warns it contains a fair bit of programming religion.
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HN recommends it as the one long programming video worth watching, a provocative and influential take on C.
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Video by Eskil Steenberg, played through YouTube.
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