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C Vu Volume 34 · Issue 6 · January 2023

Contents

• Technical Debt is a Burden
  Editorial.
• The Human Touch
  Pete Goodliffe looks at the personal side of programming.
• The Meaning of Words – Part 9: Libraries, Linkers and Loaders
  Francis Glassborow explores another set of computing terms.
• Fluent C
  Christopher Preschern describes a pattern for managing platform-specific code in C.
• Reporting An MSvc Runtime Library Bug
  Roger Orr shares his experience of submitting a bug fix to Microsoft.
• Code Critique Competition 139
  Set and collated by Roger Orr. A book prize is awarded for the best entry.
• Report on Homework Challenge 13
  Francis Glassborow reports on the last challenge and sets another.
• The Standard Report
  Guy Davidson reports on the recent face-to-face meeting in Hawai’i.
• Reviews
  The latest roundup of reviews.
• View from the Chair
  

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