Just Enough C For Open
Source Projects Andy Lester OSCON 2008

Why this session?

It's all for Michael Schwern
Schwern is a brilliant programmer. An invaluable asset to the Perl community. He still doesn't know C, even though Perl is written in C.

My assumptions • You're like
Schwern. • Already a programmer, but raised on Ruby, Python, Java or PHP. • You don't know what it was like in the bad old days. • You want to work on open source projects.

Goals • As much territory
as possible • As fast as possible • Danger zones • Impedance mismatches