Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)(needleful.net)
331 points by gudzpoz | 149 comments
A blog post in which the author attempts to read and understand Arthur Whitney's terse C code, such as his small K interpreter.
#code-style on Hacker News
4 stories tagged code-style, newest first.
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down(matklad.github.io)
495 points by goranmoomin | 177 comments
A blog post by matklad giving two rules of thumb: move if conditions up to callers and push for loops down into batch-processing functions, with Rust examples.
John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)
528 points by bpierre | 363 comments
Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.
Push ifs up and fors down(matklad.github.io)
606 points by celeritascelery | 274 comments
A blog post by matklad giving two rules of thumb: move if conditions up to callers and push for loops down into batch-processing functions, with Rust examples.