One of the biggest milestones for C was the completion of the standardization process. After the creation of the standard, which involved many people from several countries, there is a single set of features that is supported across C compilers in the market. Before standardization, different vendors could, sometimes out of necessity, implement variations of…
Problem solving is a very individual process. Everyone has a preferred way of thinking about problems, and as a result they come up with their own methods and strategies to find solutions. Programming is similar in that there are several ways of solving any design or implementation issue. It is also a singular field in…
Documentation is a polemic topic in programming because there are so many ways of doing it. While everyone agrees at some level that software documentation is important, there is rarely agreement between two programmers on exactly what needs to be documented and how. Despite the misunderstandings, there are still some common practices that can be…