[Klug-general] Obscure C at saturday's meeting

[Peter Childs]

On 29 November 2010 14:35, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a reason why C as a language does lean beautifully to code
> obfuscation. We all know that C was just a joke that has got out of
> hand, alongside the base of all *nix environments:
> http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml
>
> <http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml>From The Article:
> We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:
> for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("|"+(*u/4)%2);
>
> To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that allowed
> such a statement was beyond our comprehension!
>
>
Perl has a reputation for this too.....

Peter.


>
>
> On 29 November 2010 12:53, Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> And for exactly this reason there has been a policy in places I have
>>> worked of running any C code through the C beautifier automatically as part
>>> of the version control check-in process.  This has the advantage that coders
>>> arbitrarily rearranging the code in their preferred style whilst editing
>>> does not look like a change, and that all code retrieved is always in the
>>> house style, which makes for easier debugging.
>>>
>>> someone at barcamp was talking about do just this. Although they went one
>> step further where if it fell outside of some rules then they would stop it
>> from compiling and spit it back at the developer
>>
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