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Ever find yourself staring at a tricky coding problem and thinking, “shit”? If those thoughts make their way into your code or the associated comments, you’re in good company. When undergraduate ...

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The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC), have resurrected their ...

In this article, I survey a clutch of popular programming languages and provide some personal opinions as to when it is appropriate to use each of them. I'll also talk about some of the development ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it ...

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The IOCCC has returned to collect a fresh batch of mind-bogglingly difficult-to-understand C code The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C ...