2011-11-23



It's uncommon to do so, but it provides what  most  of  us  would
like to have, actually:

     typedef char * charp;
     charp cp1, cp2;  /* both are pointers! */

I wonder why `unsigned' made it into C. I  always  thought  those
guys  would  abbreviate everything (even `create').  Some systems
provide `typedef unsigned long ulong;' already.

These are things in C that I don't like.



If you're a programmer, you should  know  ``Reservoir  Sampling''
and ``Fisher-Yates-Shuffle''.



Came across a package gem in  Debian:  miscfiles.   You  probably
want that:

     Dictionaries and other interesting files

     These files are not crucial to system administration or
     operation,  but which have come to be common on various
     systems over the years.  They originated  from  various
     sources  and  are freely redistributable (see the copy-
     right file for more information).

     These files include those of general interest  (English
     `connectives',  Webster's  Second International English
     wordlist, traditional stone and flower for each  month,
     Precedence  table  for  operators  in  the  C language,
     description of the  ISO  Latin-1  character  set,  two-
     letter codes for languages, from ISO 639, International
     country telephone codes, geographic coordinates of many
     major  cities,  Some common abbreviations used in elec-
     tronic communication, GNU mailing  lists,  country  and
     currency abbreviations, rfc-index, etc.).

     There also is information specific to the United States
     (List  of  three  letter codes for some major airports,
     North American (+1) telephone area codes, postal  codes
     for  US states and Canadian provinces, the Constitution
     of the United States of America, the Declaration of In-
     dependence of the Thirteen Colonies).



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