101 Days of C/C++ -- Day 2

I have reams and reams of source to pour through. There is just something I have always liked about reading source. Maybe it is the anticipation or the hope that something unique or exceptionally brilliant will show it's head so I may add that nugget to my tool kit. Perhaps just some sick part of me that likes to cringe over the nasty bits. Who knows.

I am slightly boggled by the default idea in C that a source file in my project should not necessarily be a part of my project. After all, I went through the trouble of writing the code and adding it to the project. Somehow I don't want the code to compile as part of the project -- even though the source file is a part of the project?

More later. Now is the time for coffee.

Servers

So, my brother's company is apparently upgrading their servers. He just came home with three rack mount servers! I guess I should find a project that will use this new resource.

I've just finished downloading every scrap of source that uses SDL with C/C++ so I can start poring through it. Glancing through some of it I'm amazed at how messy and ugly code in this language can be. It's really no wonder why all these new code maintenance philosophies have sprung up recently.