Frama-C This blog post is on the subject of “code smells” and what is wrong with them. I initially wanted to go with the title “Code smells are crap”. That made it clearer that the title was grammatically a sentence, with “code smells” a nominal group followed by a verb. But...
Read MoreMark Shroyer has discovered an interesting consequence of undefined behavior in the compiled version of a C program: a variable behaves as both true and false as a result of being uninitialized. The post is great and could not come at a better time. I needed for the talk I...
Read MoreSo I am at this conference, right? Having been looking, for a few months now, without luck, for someone who teaches C programming*, I figure this conference is as good an occasion to find em as any. But it sounds kind of stupid to go to someone and just ask...
Read MoreA high-profile maintainer to a large Open-Source project recently found himself involved in a discussion in which at some point after having explained his arguments—I think—very clearly he had to call someone else a moron. Now everyone with write access to the internet is weighting in on how this is...
Read MoreOn a recent occasion to visit the USA on a professional basis, I nearly declined. I had a lengthy explanation ready for my refusal, and it might even have become a rant-tagged blog post. I finally went, so that hypothetical blog post never became. Today, I feel I have been...
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