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• Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie
• Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions.
  This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because "They're not efficient....
• K&R [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language", esp.
  he classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978...
• K&R: [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language", esp.
  he classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978...
• C provides the infinitely-abusable GOTO statement, and labels to branch to.
  Formally, the GOTO is never necessary, and in practice it is almost always easy to write code without it....
• Because SOMEBODY has to do the dirty work.
• The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. -- Brian Kernigha
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....
• indent style n. [C, C++, and Java programmers] The rules one uses to indent code in a readable fashion.
  There are four major C indent styles, described below...