# Introduction

## [Save to Kindle](http://hintjens.com/books)

**Source repo is** <https://github.com/booksbyus/scalable-c>**, pull requests are welcome.**

Cover font: Kontrapunkt by Bo Linnemann, Kontrapunkt A/S. Text fonts: EB Garamond by Georg Duffner, MonospaceTypewriter by Manfred Klein..

Pieter Hintjens has been programming C since 1985. He is the author of many free software products written in C: Libero (1991), SFL (1996), Xitami (1998), OpenAMQ (2004). In 2007 he founded the ZeroMQ community. His github profile is <https://github.com/hintjens>.

Other books by the same author: ["ZeroMQ - Messaging for Many Applications"](http://www.amazon.com/ZeroMQ-Messaging-Applications-Pieter-Hintjens/dp/1449334067) (O'Reilly), ["Culture and Empire: Digital Revolution"](http://cultureandempire.com) (Amazon.com), ["The Psychopath Code"](http://thepsychopathcode.com) (Amazon.com).


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