Fluent C

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• Emigre_ · Dec 31, 2022 · Recommends

  I think you’ll like Fluent C: Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Christopher Preschern (O’Reilly, 2022). The books you have are excellent ways to learn the language, and this one complements them in that it lists common practices…

  on “Relive: 50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly” ↗
• rramadass · Sep 27, 2024 · Recommends

  …design space. C (and C++) is particularly important here since it is the common "lingua-franca" across all system/application software from servers to desktops to itty-bitty MCUs. PS: Also see the book Fluent C by Christopher Preschern which while not dealing with "tricks" shows how to use C effectively using a pattern-like approach.

  on “Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C” ↗
• rramadass · Jan 30, 2026 · Recommends

  …Formal Verification of C programs Eg. Frama-C, CBMC etc. Finally, today all LLM agents are well trained on the massive publicly available C codebases making their output far more reliable. PS: See also Fluent C: Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Christopher Preschern for further study.

  on “Why I Always End Up Going Back to C” ↗
• rramadass · Oct 10, 2026 · Recommends

  Read the following if you want to be a C Programmer; Fluent C: Principles, Practices and Patterns by Christopher Preschern - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fluent-c/9781492097273/

  on “C for Rust programmers” ↗
• maskull · Oct 8, 2022 · Recommends

  I'm a C++ programmer that's not done anything directly in C. I stumbled by this book Fluent C By Christopher Preschern just published this month and I thought the organization looked rather interesting. It covers many programming concerns and details several patterns for dealing with them. One…

  on “Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?” ↗
• rramadass · Oct 16, 2024 · Recommends

  Also see Fluent C: Principles, Practices and Patterns by Christopher Preschern.

  on “The C23 edition of Modern C” ↗