[meritt]

FYI, this rant is from January 2015. Surprised to see it showing on HN today.

If anyone is interested in what he removed, you can find it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150101224641/http://c.learncod...

[Vivtek]

What he removed is actually a pretty fine essay on the pitfalls of classic C. Maybe I'm just old enough to be the target demographic, but I found it pretty illuminating.

Zed is frustrating sometimes.

[dang]

It wasn't obvious when this dates from, but we'll take your word for it and add 2015 to the title.

[meritt]

Thanks. Archive has the 'dead' article first indexed Jan 6th, 2015.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150106191636/http://c.learncod...