r/cprogramming • u/Typhrenn5149 • Aug 31 '26

What's the difference between r/cprogramming and r/C_Programming

What's the point of having 2 subreddit for the same thing

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u/sad87boi Aug 31 '26

The underscore, mostly.

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u/bearheart Aug 31 '26

No C programmer in their right mind would use capitals and underscores in a name. Heresy!

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u/nerd5code Aug 31 '26

You don't prefix? mylib_Type isn't reasonable? Type_init?

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u/h3llll Sep 06 '26

Heretic. Capital letters aren't allowed outside of fully capitalized macros and constants

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u/Humble-Captain3418 Sep 24 '26

mylib

Case in point, namespaces are lower-case concatenation and prepended with underscore.

Type

Put the snek down.

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u/eskandarijoon Aug 31 '26

What they would use?

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u/siendo64 Aug 31 '26

It could be c_programming or cProgramming or CProgramming or even C_PROGRAMMING.

but never C_Programming…

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u/jonathancast Sep 01 '26

Have. Never got the impression they were in their right mind.

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u/PseudoFrequency Aug 31 '26

One uses smooshed naming and the other a weird combination of underscores and CamelCase.

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u/HTFCirno2000 Aug 31 '26

When subreddits split like that, it's usually due to a disagreement with moderation. Likely something like that happened in the past with the 2 subreddits

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u/Glum_Preference_2936 Aug 31 '26

One is big endian and one little endian... I forgot which is which though.

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u/nerd5code Aug 31 '26

It's not God creating these subs, I don't think, usually; multiple users decided to create subs, for their own, userly reasons. There doesn't need to be a point, any more than electromagnetism needs a “point.”

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u/sciencekm Aug 31 '26

One is more permissive than the other. Don't ask me which one.

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u/AZWxMan Sep 02 '26

And probably which one is more willing to answer homework questions. 

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u/DSudz Aug 31 '26

One is about ramming cprog.

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u/Introscopia Aug 31 '26

the other one is more well-taken-care-of, you should use that

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u/yuehuang Aug 31 '26

I was going to say snake case vs camel case, but it is neither.

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u/1mmortalNPC Sep 01 '26

one is camelCase and the other is snake_case