Tower Floor -- C Programming

In dedication to all dead computer languages Past, Present and Future.

Cobol, Fortran, Forth, Pascal, BCPL, B...

You feel humbled in the presence of this monument and if you'd had a hat you feel inclined to remove it in silent reverence.

The stone staircase behind you signed as leading up to VI Editor and down to The X window System where the X is very weirdly drawn with angled lines of different thicknesses.

The white marble circle is of course just to the right of the stairs. Something about its position however seems to not be right but you aren't quite sure what.

The titles on the scroll racks lining the walls are :-

 Name                    Description
 C.algorithms            Small 'n' Nifty Algorithms
 C.debugging             Debugging Hints and Tips
 C.hints                 General C programming Hints & Tips>
 C.macros                Cpp Macro Programming Rules and Tricks
 C.processes             Fork, Exec & Child Processes Tips>
 C.prog.bugs             Programming Bugs to watch out for
 C.sys.depend            Things to check with C Compilers
 C.threads               Using threads in C
 Curses.hints            Curses Programming Hints and Tips
 DataStructures          Data Structures in C (of any type)
 IO.hints                Input, Output, and Sockets
 Make.hints              Makefile Hints and Tips
 RandomNumbers           Random Number Generators
 TildeExpansion          Expanding tilde `~' as csh does
 Yacc.hints              Yacc Programming Hints and Tips
 bit_programming.txt     Bitwise programming Tricks
 fixpoint.hints          My notes on Fixed Point Integers
 fixpoint.macros         Fixed Point C Macro functions
 lib.funct.c             Library function substitution
 loadable.objs           Creating and Loading a Runtime .o File
 select.example          Using Select (complex example explained)
 shared.libraries        Creating a shared dynamic library
 shared.memory           Using shared memory between processes
 signals.hints           Signal Handling and Processing

You can go..