Tag: dennis ritchie
CodeSport
This month's column is special, in honour of LFY's 9th anniversary. We feature tips on how to prepare for programming interviews.
This month, we celebrate...
Joy of Programming: The Legacy of C
Dennis Ritchie died on the 8th of October 2011, at the age of 70. His lasting contributions to computing include creating the C language,...
CodeSport
In this month's column, we will continue our discussion on some of the common loop optimisations performed by the compiler.
In last month's column, I...
Write Your Next Program on Linux
Quite a few colleges and schools still teach C/C++/Java programming on Windows -- and even worse, on DOS (using Turbo C/C++)! GNU/Linux provides a...
Joy of Programming: Some Puzzling Things About C Language!
Have you wondered why some of the features of C language are unintuitive? As we'll see in this column, there are historical reasons for...