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From: jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Requests for nominations of Great C Code (Was Re: Texts ...
Summary: What is the best C code you know of
Keywords: Great C Code
Message-ID: <433@algor2.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 21:05:21 GMT
References: <354@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler)
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Organization: Algorists, Inc., Reston VA
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In article <354@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> isaac@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (isaac.j.champagne) writes:
> It seems like the "how to" of programming may be more important than
> lots of theories.

To become a "great" C programmer, I feel the best way is to study
the works of the masters.

I am very interested in the answers others have to the following:  What ts
the best C code you have ever read?  Let me impose these restrictions:

1.) The code should be published, public domain or freerighted (in the GNU
style), so that anyone wishing to study it has reasonable access to it.

2.) Of course, we are all too modest to start posting our own code.

3.) It should be large and complex enough so that someone who has waded
through it and understood can feel he now "knows" C.  A collection of small
programs qualifies, but not a 3 page programming pearl.

4.) Please nominate only stuff you have closely read from beginning to end.
I have worked for some time on code for which I cannot make this claim
(not that I would nominate it anyway).  This requirement in combination
with the previous means the best of us will only know of a handful of such
examples, at most.

5.) I want nominations, but not votes.  One or two authoritative and
reasoned postings from some of our net mavens (we know who they are) will
carry a lot more weight with me, at least, that a lot of people saying "I
have heard John Doe's _The_Nerd's_Complete_Database_Library_in_C_ is good."
-- 

Jeffrey Kegler, President, Algorists,
jeffrey@algor2.UU.NET or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
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