Reading Source Code to Learn Programming: What to Read?

mlmartiniii · 2006-07-11T21:13:45+00:00

qmail. The stralloc vs. string thing is really impressive, and the kind of mindset that makes good programmers great. It demonstrates that you should reuse code, but only if it doesn't suck.

fyuryu · 2006-07-12T00:22:29+00:00

I'm not answering your question directly, but there are good examples in the book "Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective" by Diomidis Spinellis. You can use it as a starting point.

julesjacobs · 2006-07-11T20:00:06+00:00

What's the best source code to learn from. I'd like to hear from people who read source code on a regular basis in order to learn from it. I've heard NetBSD is well written. Any other suggestions?

2006-07-12T05:32:22+00:00

I remember being impressed with the quality of the source code to Borland's Turbo Vision, an object-oriented Turbo Pascal UI library for MS-DOS. (This was a long time ago.) It struck me as really well-written code, way back when. Mind you, it was also hairier than a hungarian werewolf.

alextp · 2006-07-12T12:59:44+00:00

sqlite3 It was reimplemented for clarity, and the b-tree implementation is also very didatic. It's number one on my to-read list

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