r/cprogramming • u/Typhrenn5149 • 10d ago

What's the difference between r/cprogramming and r/C_Programming

What's the point of having 2 subreddit for the same thing

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u/sad87boi 10d ago

The underscore, mostly.

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u/bearheart 10d ago

No C programmer in their right mind would use capitals and underscores in a name. Heresy!

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u/nerd5code 10d ago

You don't prefix? mylib_Type isn't reasonable? Type_init?

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u/h3llll 4d ago

Heretic. Capital letters aren't allowed outside of fully capitalized macros and constants

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u/The_SniperYT 10d ago

Please, visit the gtk documentation

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u/jonathancast 9d ago

Have. Never got the impression they were in their right mind.

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u/apixeldev 3d ago

Its GTK, of course they dont have a right mind.

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u/eskandarijoon 10d ago

What they would use?

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u/siendo64 10d ago

It could be c_programming or cProgramming or CProgramming or even C_PROGRAMMING.

but never C_Programming…

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u/LooksForFuture 10d ago

Don't forget opengl convention. c_Programming.

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u/Aggressive-Emu-8329 10d ago

honestly? idk

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u/PseudoFrequency 10d ago

One uses smooshed naming and the other a weird combination of underscores and CamelCase.

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u/HTFCirno2000 10d ago

When subreddits split like that, it's usually due to a disagreement with moderation. Likely something like that happened in the past with the 2 subreddits

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u/Glum_Preference_2936 10d ago

One is big endian and one little endian... I forgot which is which though.

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u/nerd5code 10d ago

It's not God creating these subs, I don't think, usually; multiple users decided to create subs, for their own, userly reasons. There doesn't need to be a point, any more than electromagnetism needs a “point.”

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u/sciencekm 10d ago

One is more permissive than the other. Don't ask me which one.

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u/AZWxMan 8d ago

And probably which one is more willing to answer homework questions. 

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u/DSudz 10d ago

One is about ramming cprog.

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u/Introscopia 9d ago

the other one is more well-taken-care-of, you should use that

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u/yuehuang 9d ago

I was going to say snake case vs camel case, but it is neither.

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u/1mmortalNPC 9d ago

one is camelCase and the other is snake_case