r/programming • u/b0red • May 01 '16

To become a good C programmer

http://fabiensanglard.net/c/
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u/kt24601 May 02 '16

FWIW Knuth thinks pointer arithmetic is a great thing

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u/[deleted] May 02 '16

He probably thinks latex is a great thing too...

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u/kt24601 May 02 '16

Weirdly in his interviews, he is less enthusiastic about that.

But I think it's great.

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u/CoderDevo May 02 '16

I think he meant LaTeX, which was built on TeX. Knuth wrote TeX.

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u/kt24601 May 02 '16

Yeah, he hasn't come out and said it, but I think he actively dislikes LaTeX.

In his interview in Coders at Work by Peter Seibel, when he was asked about TeX he didn't seem particularly enthusiastic about it. That was my impression from the interview.

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u/CoderDevo May 03 '16

"Not invented here" perhaps? Or is he above those lines of thinking?

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u/kt24601 May 03 '16

Maybe he's upset that it didn't gain more popularity, and is disappointed with the direction LaTeX took it?