Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On 2025-03-25, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:

Listen sonny, in large projects in companies - ie not the toy code you work
on in your bedroom - different people will have checked out seperate modules
and be working on them at any one time.

Splitting into files does make a big difference with centralized version
control that requires you to maintain a lock on an object that you are
modifying.

It makes little difference with distributed versioning systems like git.

You can catenate 10 .c files into a single one, and it would be just
as easy to work on in parallel.

However, git still has the concept of a file being one object.
You can "git log" a single file, and that is very useful;
If the file is a combination of what should be ten files, then
it becomes less useful.

I'm not suggesting people should combine files; it's a bad idea for
multiple reasons. Just that you *can* pretty easily work concurrently on
large files unless you're using a very outdated version control system.

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