Svoboda, D., 2026: The SEI CERT Coding Standard for Fortran. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed July 1, 2026, https://doi.org/10.58012/w9t7-6y96. This blog ...

Dennis Ritchie started developing the C programming language (Fig. 1) in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan delivered the quintessential book, The C Programming ...

Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, unfortunately closed by his passing away at the age of 92 ...

There are myriads of JSON libraries out there, and each may even have its reason to exist. Our class had these design goals: Intuitive syntax. In languages such as Python, JSON feels like a ...

The process of preparing for coding interviews is anxiety-inducing for many developers. There’s so much material to cover, and often much of it feels irrelevant to what devs are doing in their day ...

Note: Some of the code here is old and was written when I was learning C++. It might be possible that code is not safe or making wrong assumptions. Please use with caution. Pull requests are always ...

Originally published in the November 1988 Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Correction is the final step of any debugging exercise. Sometimes bug eradication is straightforward; sometimes a bug ...

I once attended a Java user group meeting where James Gosling (Java’s inventor) was the featured speaker. During the memorable Q&A session, someone asked him: “If you could do Java over again, what ...