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		guest_reader 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Is SQLite Coded In C > C is so simple, that you will need to read a 700-page, comitee-written manual befor you can attempt to write it correctly. The official C99 standard document is typically about 210 pages.

krior 4 months ago | [–]

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3096.pdf

Admittedly the 700 pages include the appendix and it is only a draft version, but still...

pjmlp 4 months ago | [–]

Except the little detail that you need to complement that with all the manuals of the C compilers being used.

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