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tmewett

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    Comment #33799465

    Thank you :) Though I should say, most of the code is by the original author Brian

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    Comment #33776656

    Hah, "unnecessarily abstract" is my middle name :) I don't really like stack/heap terminology. "Heap" especially is a nightmare because (a) it also means some specific, irrelevant …

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    Comment #33776374

    >C does a wonderful job of looking like a high level language but it was designed to do low level stuff. There is an implicit assumption, to my mind, that the user has a deeper und…

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    Comment #33775197

    I didn't learn computer science at college/university - only via the internet, and C is quite different to learn that way vs other languages. That was my main motivation for writin…

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    Comment #33774950

    Thank you so much! I will definitely be amending a few things. WRT no section on undefined behaviour - you're so right, how could I forget?

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    Comment #33774919

    Completely agree - that's exactly why I wrote this. Some of things I wrote even seem super obvious but with no real authority you wonder whether or not this is "the way" to do thin…

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    Comment #33774856

    Interesting, I didn't fully realise that. That it's arbitrary is annoying, I clearly had tried to rationalise it to myself! Thanks for the comments, will get around to amending

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    Comment #33774762

    Ah, that was one of my less considered additions - thank you for the feedback!