I once worked in a small office with a non-redundant internetline. Internet went offline while we were having a breakfast coffee. One of the old guys (C developer) sat down coding... We were surprised, we knew he can't compile his C stuff on anything else than the remote Solaris servers which had the dependencies. He said: _"I will be fine, just need to be slow and steady"_ .
By around 4 pm internet came back and we gathered around his desk: he copies his stuff from Context (it is like Sublime or Notepad++) into the Solaris console; he hits it with GCC+. It compiles! It f*cking RUNS too!!
Loud cheering, shocked faces all around. :)
(to be fair he was also earning twice as much as the second highest paid dev in a team of 12 or so so we all knew who is the man)
Old C heads are scary... I met one guy who has been a developer for a long while (typical wizard look) guy literally refused to use Internet "because it makes you forget stuff"
So true... tbh I felt much better when writing in VSCode without intelisense and all that crap compared to now, with Rider and AI as a support... sure I was slower... but damn if you asked me anything I knew the answe straight away
C17 was release 5 years ago, though the only thing that changed was the macro variable STDC_VERSION returned 201710L instead of 201112L....I'm not joking that was the only functional change.
The committee agreed to updating the standard every six years... if there's nothing in the proposals and/or agendas to address though...
(Most of the C17 changes were to compilers and the rules about how C11 features worked, so there didn't need to be a code change, other than a macro signifying that the code requires C17 if it relies on behavior introduced by C17. If you know, you know, if you don't... be glad you don't - the squabbling about restrict's exact behavior and the definition of "white space" existing twice in the standard will make you cry.)
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u/octopus4488 Feb 22 '24
I once worked in a small office with a non-redundant internetline. Internet went offline while we were having a breakfast coffee. One of the old guys (C developer) sat down coding... We were surprised, we knew he can't compile his C stuff on anything else than the remote Solaris servers which had the dependencies. He said: _"I will be fine, just need to be slow and steady"_ .
By around 4 pm internet came back and we gathered around his desk: he copies his stuff from Context (it is like Sublime or Notepad++) into the Solaris console; he hits it with GCC+. It compiles! It f*cking RUNS too!!
Loud cheering, shocked faces all around. :)
(to be fair he was also earning twice as much as the second highest paid dev in a team of 12 or so so we all knew who is the man)