developerWorks: Best Practices for Programming in C

“Although the C language has been around for close to 30 years,
its appeal has not yet worn off. It continues to attract a large
number of people who must develop new skills for writing new
applications, or for porting or maintaining existing
applications.

“This article has been written with the needs of the developer
in mind. We have put together a set of guidelines that have served
us well as developers and consultants over the years, and we offer
these as suggestions that may help you in your job. You may not
agree with all of them but our hope is you would like some of them
and use them in your programming or porting projects…”

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