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I Started Still Another C Tutorial

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I went to the library and found a copy of *C for Dummies* on the shelf. So I snatched it up and brought it home and read all about structs and pointers. And I felt really good about that!

So when the topic came up in #meta, I mentioned the fact that I was reading this book. And somebody in chat unceremoniously posted a link to "Stuff That Should Be Avoided" on iso-9889.info.

https://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page#Stuff_that_should_be_avoided

This site is quite hostile. It dismisses books and in some cases the entire works of some authors as "horrible," "too many mistakes to enumerate," and "difficult to find a page without an error." Including the book I am currently reading.

I have to admit I felt quite disheartened at this!

But then I read the rest of the page with its RTFM and "fucking google it" and I decided that this site is for the birds, and its authors are just a bunch of curmudgeonly old cranks. And a good C resource is the one that inspires me to write C. Their nitpicky, gatekeeping, negative opinions be damned.

Let people enjoy things.

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On tilde.town we had we had a digital secret santa. Participants were assigned a victim, and then created some digital little thingie for them. It was very cute!

I made a little thing in Decker.

http://tilde.town/~dozens/sekrit.html

https://beyondloom.com/decker/

And my gift was a little digital garden written in C and ncurses. It is from elly! You start the program and just watch it. Flowers grow and then die. A tree grows and gets big. A little bee flies around. It is very cute, and I like it a lot.

I would much rather hang out with somebody who loves C and loves to share it with people and tell them all about it than with somebody who loves C and loves to tell people how they're doing it wrong and that they should RFTM.

date: 2024-01-07
file: 17.gmi
url: gemini://tilde.town/~dozens/gemlog/17.gmi
title: I Started Still Another C Tutorial
keywords: c programming