Paul J. Lucas

Retired Principal Software Engineer, Instructor, Author — most recently of the book Why Learn C.

San Francisco Bay Area Joined on Jan 21, 2017 paul@lucasmail.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauljaylucas/

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Work

Retired Principal Software Engineer

C++

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C

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GitHub Repositories

cdecl

Composing and deciphering C (or C++) declarations or casts, aka ‘‘gibberish.’’

C • 72 stars

wrap

Text reformatter better than fmt(1) or fold(1).

C • 12 stars

ASCII file dump that can also search for and highlight strings or numbers.

C • 8 stars

c_exception

Library for implementing C++-like exceptions in C.

env

My own personal configuration files & scripts for Unix platforms.

Shell • 5 stars

Skills/Languages

C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, Unix, gcc, clang, lldb, Autotools, Make, CMake, Bison, Flex; technical writing.

Available for

I am NOT available for advice, collaboration, consultation, jobs, recommendations, nor individual training. No, I don't want to write for your site.

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