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Rusty (Score:2)

by Ovid (2709)

Wow, my C is really rusty. Took me a moment to realize why the last while wasn't a bug :)
- Re:Rusty (Score:1)
  
  by Aristotle (5147)
  
  Yes, it’s very dense code. It took me a moment to get right! :)
  
  If it wasn’t for the ineffably laborious tedium of memory micromanagement that is all too frequently necessary, I’d spend a lot more time writing C. (I see that as a failing of the standard library much more so than of the language itself.)
there are a lot of reasons to like C (yes, really) (Score:1)

by spur (4197)

And one of them is the beutifully concise code one can write for such string manipulation tasks. I just *love* seeing them pointers fly :-)