Hi HN,

We are members of the C Standard Committee and associated C experts, who have collaborated on a new book called Effective C, which was discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716068. After that thread, dang invited me to do an AMA and I invited my colleagues so we upgraded it to an AUA. Ask us about C programming, the C Standard or C standardization, undefined Behavior, and anything C-related!

The book is still forthcoming, but it's available for pre-order and early access from No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/Effective_C.

Here's who we are:

rseacord - Robert C. Seacord is a Technical Director at NCC Group, and author of the new book by No Starch Press “Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming” and C Standards Committee (WG14) Expert.

AaronBallman - Aaron Ballman is a compiler frontend engineer for GrammaTech, Inc. and works primarily on the static analysis tool, CodeSonar. He is also a frontend maintainer for Clang, a popular open source compiler for C, C++, and other languages. Aaron is an expert for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ programming language standards committees and is a chapter author for Effective C.

msebor - Martin Sebor is Principal Engineer at Red Hat and expert for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ programming language standards committees and the official Technical Reviewer for Effective C.

DougGwyn - Douglas Gwyn is Emeritus at US Army Research Laboratory and Member Emeritus for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and a major contributor to Effective C.

pascal_cuoq - Pascal Cuoq is the Chief Scientist at TrustInSoft and co-inventor of the Frama-C technology. Pascal was a reviewer for Effective C and author of a foreword part.

NickDunn - Nick Dunn is a Principal Security Consultant at NCC Group, ethical hacker, software security tester, code reviewer, and major contributor to Effective C.

Fire away with your questions and comments about C!

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