{"title": "C Programming Language is an Interesting Experience", "timestamp": 1785859173.2577336, "description": "I just wrote a functional program in C. It is not doing anything too fancy. But I'm so happy about it because of what it means. For the longest time I didn't know pretty much nothing except of Python. I can use Python for a lot of very interesting stuff. But I want to be able to look at code written in different languages and know what I'm looking at. I want to be able to make changes to the UPBGE game engine for my game [Dani's Race](/games/Dani's_Race) and stuff.\r\n\r\n\r\nI know, I know, UPBGE is a fork of Blender and therefor is written in C++, not C. What am I wasting my time, learning C, for? Well...", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. 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So in C a \"hello world\" program is a bit more complicated:\r\n\r\nAnd... your code is going to segfault, you did not provide a return statement.", "username": "Troler", "id": 0, "timestamp": 1785860721.4803662, "p_index": {"2": 36}}, {"text": "> if ( strcmp(text1, text2) == 0 ){ dosomething(); }\r\n\r\nI would write the code as \r\n\r\n```\r\nif ( !strcmp(text1, text2) ){ dosomething(); }\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis is more in style of C, that is, less readable.", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1785860966.365077, "p_index": {"2": 74}}, {"text": "c:0\r\n\r\n@Troler I compiled it and tried it and it worked. So apparently it is not that needed.", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1785862535.717867}, {"text": "c:1\r\n\r\n@Troler lol", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1785862566.8513134}, {"text": "c:2\r\n\r\n@blenderdumbass That's because the compiler adds it for you. `main()` is an int function, it requires to return an whole number. Here, the number represents the return code.", "username": "Troler", "id": 4, "timestamp": 1785863413.4868164}, {"id": 5, "activitypub": "https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/kwramm/statuses/117038423264137602", "username": "@kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place", "text": "[@blenderdumbass](https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass) the nice thing about both C and Python are that they are nice, concise languages, that yet have a great amount of depth. Now C++, well, there's also all that sprawl..."}, {"text": "c:4\r\n\r\n@Troler Well I'm greatfull the GCC isn't stupid.", "username": "blenderdumbass", "edited": true, "id": 6, "timestamp": 1785864972.8034172}]}, "collections": [], "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["c", "programming", "clang", "gcc", "python", "c++"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "lemmy": [""], "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/c_programming_language_is_an_interesting_experience", "likes": ["blenderdumbass", "https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass", "Troler", "https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/kwramm"], "boosts": ["https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass"]}