I’ve tried a lot of the “newer” languages and, somehow, I’m always happiest when I go back to C++ or even C. However, there is one thing that gets a little on my nerves when I go back: the need to ...

As I'm spending some time back in the land of low-level C, I'm trying to fully get my head around best-practices for header files and code organization, so I thought I'd toss out some questions. (NOTE ...

(1) A file that contains program instructions. See source code. (2) A file that contains original or essential data that is the starting point for a system of publishing or other processing. For ...

Separating interface from implementation has many practical benefits. Here’s a simple way to do just that, in ANSI-standard C code. How do you organize medium-sized or larger C programs? Few C ...

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...

When looking through a large list of projects, one thing becomes apparent: a description of the build process always is stored in a group of files. These files can be simple shell scripts, Makefiles, ...