Today, if one wants to write as fast program as possible; or as compact as possible for embedded systems or low-cost microcontrollers, the choice is very limited: C, C++ or assembly language. And as it seems in the near future, there are no alternative to these old but popular programming languages.

"Pure C" should be still considered, a huge number of large programs are still developed in it, e.g. Linux kernel, Windows NT OS line kernels, Oracle RDBMS, etc. This notes collections is not intended for beginners, neither for experts, it is rather for those who wants to fresh their C/C++ knowledge.

Dennis Yurichev is an experienced programmer reverse engineer. Also available as a freelance teacher of assembly language, reverse engineering, C/C++.