[ale] C programming tips

[Prasanna Subash]

I program in C/C++ a lot... but few years ago we tried to do a 
2+2+2+2+2+2+2.... that spans few lines in C/C++ and PERL. Perl kicked C/C++ 
right out of the water.


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On Tuesday 02 July 2002 18:47, cfowler wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Fletch                | "If you find my answers frightening,       __`'/|
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> >     U
> >
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