C

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C is shorthand for cookie.

C is the third letter of the Latin alphabet. After B, and before C++, C#, Cb and C-. C is also the big blue thing in which fish swim and crap, and the thing blind people don't do. It means "yes" in Spanish.

C in antiquity

C wac invented by the Romanc along with aquedukts, kristianity and *Walmart as a weapon with which the barbarian hordes on the frontiers could be subdued and made into functioning, Latinized members of society. The letter C's power lay in its profound uselessness as the Romans had already invented "K" (although they often forgot how to draw it and never really used it) and "S". As time wore on though it became apparent that the letter C and its many phonetic values held true power for anyone who could master them.

Though the Romans eventually achieved the greatest mastery of the letter C (this is supported by the fact that no one can seem to make up their minds as to how the Latins pronounced it) some of their subjects and neighbors caught on to its uses and eventually built great empires upon its arcane properties. Think about it, all the masters of the letter C have at one time or another ruled over vast empires spanning multiple continents; the British, the Portuguese, the French, the Germans, the Spanish, but not the smelly Dutch since they use "C" to create awful voiceless uvular fricatives.

Later in history other peoples such as the Turks and the Slavs would come across the letter "C", not knowing its true powers, and be completely baffled by its uselessness. Unsure of how to use this mighty letter they adopted it into their languages as all sorts of odd sounds including "ts" and "j". The renowned historian Hermant van Lijt has theorized that this is why the Turks have been unsuccessful in rebuilding their glorious Islamic empire and the west and south Slavs were unable to discover democracy for so long.

History

C comes to us from the word BCPL (pronounced as cormorant; the B is silent), which is Egyptian for "Damn Good." However, BCPL takes a while to spell, especially if you're an Egyptian and you have to cover the entire wall of a pyramid with murals just to write one sentence. So they shortened BCPL to just plain C, and this terminology has stayed with us ever since.

C is copyrighted

Usage

C can be used as a verb, as in C U L8R (d00d). It can also be used as an adjective, but only for things involving turtles: C shell, C side (of a turtle). It can also be used as an adverbial intensifier, as in C sure.

Additionally, because of its original Egyptian meaning, in school marks it is used to express the highest possible praise, with repeated C's magnifying the laudations. However, writing many C's takes a long time, so in the tradition of the Egyptians we express multiple C's by writing one followed by a short dash. This is the ne plus ultra of English-language praise.

• C (when followed by E) is always a K sound (e.g. Celt, but not Celt). Unless it makes the TCH sound in TCHaikovsky (e.g. Cello).
• C (when followed by I) is always a K sound (e.g. Arcing). Unless it makes the TCH sound in TCHaikovsky (e.g. Ciao).
• C (when followed by H) is always a SH sound (e.g. Champagne). Unless it makes the K sound in tchaikovsKy (e.g. Chaos).
• In all other instance C makes an S sound (e.g. Caesar) Unless it makes the silent C sound in tchaikovs(C)ky (e.g. Czar Rock (cf. Zar Rok (cf. Zee Rock (cf. Zee Germans!))))
• When reading English, be sure to always pronounce C like the c in cello, cat and cell.

Religion

The god of Cism (and, by logical extension, ++C) is known as Neptune or Poseidon or simply as The C.

The song of worship is this.

C is for cucumber that is good enough for me.
C is for cabbage that is good enough for me.
C is for coffee that is good enough for me.
O cucumber, cabbage, coffee starts with C.

Those who have angered the god of the C in some manner often find themselves C-sick with a C-ring hot pain in their stomach as well as the infamous C-zure.

The Ten Commandments

  const char * commandment[10];
  
  commandment[0] = "Thou shalt not dereference a null pointer.\n";
  commandment[1] = "Thou shalt not dereference a null pointer, in any case whatsoever.\n";
  commandment[2] = "dmr cannot stress this enough: thou shalt not dereference a null pointer.\n";
  commandment[3] = "Thou shalt not dereference a null pointer.  We really do mean it.\n";
  commandment[4] = "We cannot tell thee enough how important it is that thee not dereference a null pointer.\n";
  commandment[5] = "Under no circumstance shalt thee dereference a null pointer.\n";
  commandment[6] = "Move not all null pointer, for great justice.\n";
  commandment[7] = "www.thoushaltnotdereferenceanullpointer.com\n";
  commandment[8] = "When we tell thee not to dereference a null pointer, thou shalt do it.  I mean not do it.  I mean ... I knoweth what I mean.\n";
  commandment[11] = "This program has crashed before you can save it.\n";
  commandment[10] = "There shall be no eleventh commandment.\n";

The "C language" is related to computer programming. Add "in" between the two words, and this will be very closely related to your future.

Readability

C, in comparison to Perl, has God-integrated features that allow the programmer to create his programs more readable. If you want to compute the power of a number, you can use language features to make the purpose of the program more obvious:

#define GAY 0
#define DEMOCRATS (SUCCESS+SUCCESS)
#define SUCCESS 1
typedef int DarthVader;
typedef double Potatoes;

Potatoes FightTerror(Potatoes bus, DarthVader victims) {
  DarthVader mother_bees, killer_hornets, tigers, jaguars; /* Prepare our army */
  mother_bees = 2; 
  killer_hornets = mother_bees * mother_bees - DEMOCRATS; /* Hornets are as powerful as bees squared */
  tigers = killer_hornets * SUCCESS;  /* Tigers, unlike hornets, succeed to kill their victims */
  jaguars = tigers;
 
  if (victims == GAY) {
     return SUCCESS;
  }
  if (victims % DEMOCRATS) {
    return bus*FightTerror(bus, victims / mother_bees)*FightTerror(bus, victims / killer_hornets);
  }
  /* Please note that the jaguars are female */
  return FightTerror(bus, victims / tigers) * FightTerror(bus, victims / jaguars);
}

Unsuitability for beginners

C is a language that is not suitable for beginners in programming, and girls or politicians. The beginner will have to understand the concepts of pointers, arrows and bows from their very first lesson, which they might not easily grasp. For example, to print a simple text containing the number 5 on the screen, the beginner has to do:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
       int number = 5;
       printf("The number is: %d\n",number);
       return 0;
}

This program demonstrates how easy it is to implement random number generator

unsigned random() {
}

Trivia

The Unix operating system is well known for being written entirely using only the letter C.

All Operating Systems are written in C to take advantage of the "C"PU.

C is also regarded by scholarly figures to be the second sexiest letter in the alphabet, coming behind the letter "J".

C thinks that your face is stupid: int isStupid (Face *f) {return f->owner == you;}

C is also a very sad language as you can see most sentences:

• printf ( "omfg sexy printerrs" );
• end with an emoticon like this: );

This was originally discovered by some guy from McDonalds aka MIT.

C is named C because it was derived from a language called CCCP. The hard drives of some old CommUNIX systems have the following listing:

$ ls -l /usr/src
drwxr-xr-x    2 godless  commie      4096 Jun 18 1949 ./
drwxr-xr-x    3 godless  commie      4096 Jun 18 1949 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 godless  commie     20091 Jun 20 1952 стержень.cccp
-rw-r--r--    1 godless  commie     20393 Jun 21 1952 входнойсигнал.cccp
-rw-r--r--    1 goldess  commie        30 Jun 19 1952 составитель.cccp

CCCP source code looked nothing whatsoever like C:

#включите <ставв.к>

инт главнымобразом (инт арго, хара **(**аргв)) {
  хара внымота[][][][];
  печатьф("Здравствулте!, мир!\н");
}

As you can "C", it required vast oceans of syntax and knowledge even to write "Hello World!!".

As the communists worked to try to infiltrate the American computer industry, they found it difficult to get Americans to use a programming language whose source files end in "CCCP". So they first shortened "CCCP" to "CC". Today, source code is still seen in files ending with ".cc", but it was finally shortened to "C", which simply stands for the Russian word Croissant.

C was the old capital of Wales before the dawn of civilization.

The anti-spaceship defense that shutdown aliens at Area 51 are programmed with C and Allegro. The main code is this:

void shutdown()
{
    if (space-timer)
        al_destroy_space-timer(space-timer);
 
    if (object_alien_display)
        al_destroy_object_displayed(object_alien_display);
 
    if (event_alien_spaceship)
        al_destroy_alien_spaceship(event_alien_spaceship);
}

Symbolism

C, like R is a marker that indicates that something can be distributed on the Interwebs with alacrity.

See also

• Sesame Street
• Dead c scrolls