What I like and dislike about C
Although I primarily write PHP, I do also use C. There are lots of things I like and dislike about the language. Size C is a very small language -…
Relearning modern C
Over the past few weeks I've started relearning the C programming language, which I haven't used much since my undergraduate degree. Apart from the intellectual challenge, there's a lot of…
Programming language proficiency
As a freelancer, I have a degree of control over which languages I invest the time required to achieve a level of proficiency -- albeit somewhat guided by the market…
Valgrind warning: client switching stacks
Recently I was writing code in Python and C to find prime numbers using a simple implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthemes (implementation details will follow in a later post).…