Guidelines for Writing Fully Encapsulated C Programs: Pure vs Performance Approaches
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Summary
This article presents a comprehensive set of rules and guidelines for writing fully encapsulated C programs, developed by the author over years of experience. It covers two main approaches: pure encapsulation (focusing on complete data hiding and abstraction) and performance encapsulation (balancing encapsulation with optimization needs). The article provides detailed programming rules, best practices, and philosophical insights about C programming, emphasizing the language's closeness to assembly and the freedom it offers developers.
Key quotes
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I offer both a 'performance' and a 'pure encapsulation' approach to C here (first two headers). So feel free to interpret the rest of the rules based on the approach.
One of the great things about C is that it allows you to write code that is both high-level and low-level at the same time.
Perfect encapsulation means that the internal representation of data is completely hidden from the outside world.
The performance approach sacrifices some encapsulation purity for better runtime efficiency when needed.
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