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`0x0d2C` – Ode to C

By Jon S. Stumpf

May your signals all trap
May your references be bounded
All memory aligned
Floats to ints rounded

Remember …

Non-zero is true
++ adds one
Arrays start with zero
and, NULL is for none

For octal, use zero
0x means hex
= will set
== means test

use -> for a pointer
a dot if its not
? : is confusing
use them a lot

a.out is your program
there’s no U in foobar
and, char (*(*x())[])() is
a function returning a pointer
to an array of pointers to
functions returning char

I_like_cats ,

I like it

Thorry84 ,

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

CanadaPlus ,

Dump a core out for my homies.

SatouKazuma ,

No need. Intel dumped all of them out, even if it was onto the rest of the motherboard.

7uWqKj ,

This is older than many reading here … and C was already old when this was written.

7uWqKj ,

Or should I say, when this was posted on Usenet. Who knows when it was written.

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

The Usenet post I linked to claims it’s originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that’s accurate or not. I actually can’t find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it’s usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90’s

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