Insight into the art of writing C code

Writing C code is an art, it's not something you can just do off the cuff!

C is a beautiful and elegant language that should be crafted with immaculate formatting and precise punctuation.

This allows you to see the flow and rhythm of the code.

Yet you sully it with double slash comments, //, which are C++ constructs, a horrible and convoluted contamination of C's purity.

Your punctuation would make the hardest of English language teachers weep in despair.

Writing C code is crafting poetry, a well written program is like a classical novel, a Dickens or a Shakespeare sonnet, something wondrous to behold. A story with a beginning, a plot and an end.

An elegant program can make a grown man shed tears of joy to understand the beauty before him.
You are at one with the algorithms and the hardware they control.

And yet, we are in a world when all an sundris dip their toes into the world of programming.
Some of the code I see on these pages make me weep in despair. Such ugliness, so much disrespect. No understanding that we are talking to sand and asking it to do our bidding.
Only when we ask politely, with well formated code, will it respond to our requests.

No wonder half the gadgets is this world don't work!

Rant about C

Looks like somebody had inherited a few thousand lines of code from an amateur.

By the way, using C++ constructs in C is often called "C+" (yes, with one +). While it may violate C calligraphy, it's a readable and understandable approach.