User:Phoenixpinpoint/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_string_handling

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
As a software engineer I have worked with the C programming language full time for the past 5 years. As a hobbyist, I have worked with it for about 10 years. C strings also commonly called c-style strings are by far one of the strangest aspects of the language and what scares people away the most.

Evaluate the article
The opening of the articles does a great job of explaining what a c string is. It would be nice to try to find some historical background on why the decision was made to use this style of string either in an a Bell C standard or some ANSI standard. This may be missing as that all happened in the 1970's when it was written, well before the internet.

The content gets significantly more detailed as you go on. It explains what functions can be used on what types and what the descriptions of those functions are.

For the downsides in the content there does appear to be claims without backing that appear to be personal opinions or biases.

Sources are a bit of a challenge here we either have other Wikipedia pages as sources, broken sources, or all together no source.

Other than tables of types and functions this article does not include any images or media. It might be a good idea to illustrate some of the functions or potential bugs of c strings here fore the audience.

The talk pages is fairly sparse with activity in mostly 2015, with a discussion in 2019 then most recently 2 comments in 2023

Overall I would say this page appears early in its develop as far as progress despite is almost 10 year presence on Wikipedia. Phoenixpinpoint (talk) 02:55, 30 March 2024 (UTC)