Most C programmers are faggots

I'm getting really irritated at a lot of self proclaimed C programmers for abusing the fuck out structures and pointers. It's easy to get out of hand and make your code look like shit and it seems people want to do it even when it's not necessary. The problem is even a lot of legitimately experienced C programmers do the same shit. Go look at the source to your favorite software written in C.

A good example is that stupid dubs checker thread that faggot just made. It should be written like this


#include <stdio.h>

#define base 10

int check(int i, int b) {
  return(i%b == (i/b)%b);
}

int main(void) {
  int i = 1;
 
  while(i++ < 100)
    if(check(i, base))
      puts("nice dubs bro");
     
  return(0);
}

>>96
Cool. Then what does the quote 'In evaluating a[i], C converts it to *(a+i) immediately; the two forms are equivalent.' (p99 2e) means?

'Any operation that can be achieved by array subscripting can also be done with pointers. The pointer version will in general be faster but, at least to the uninitiated, somewhat harder to understand.' (p97 2e) Why would the pointer version would be, generally, faster if the above is not true?