[ale] C programming tips

[cfowler]

How many more cycles and memory is wasted on that?

C is easy.  

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 18:35, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "Randy" == Randy Janinda <rjaninda at tqlabs.com> writes:
> 
>     Randy> Hello everyone, I've finally taken the time to learn C
>     Randy> (atleast the basics). I have written a few small utilities
>     Randy> and my first C socket code (woo hooo!).  I now need some
>     Randy> resources to help me get a handle on string matching.  I
>     Randy> come from Perl, where regex's rock and am looking for the
>     Randy> some C equivalents to matching words, patterns, etc. So far
>     Randy> I've found regcomp() and regexec() but no useful examples
>     Randy> on how to use them.  Anyone have pointyers or resources
>     Randy> they would like to share?
> 
>         Don't bother with C. :)
> 
> 
>         Half serious there, but with Inline::C you can use perl for
> all of the stuff that's easy in perl and easily incorporate C chunks
> where it's necessary (raw speed bit twiddling, talking to hardware,
> linking to other libraries).  I'll take
> 
> 
>     use IO::Socket::INET ();
>     my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddress => 'foo.bar.com',
>                                       PeerPort    => 80, );
> 
> 
>         over the 20-30 lines of C necessary to accomplish the same
> thing any day.
>  
>                 
> 
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