Cdecl – Turns English phrases into C declarations

This seems to be the same as the cdecl program available in most Linux distributions (apt-get install cdecl). Websites for these little utilities are definitely useful, though. :)

Here's an easy way to understand how these things work: in C, the type of a pointer/function/array mess is declared by how it's used. For a declaration like "int ( * ( * foo)(void))[3]", you can read it as "for a variable foo, after computing the expression ( * ( * foo)(void))[3], the result is an int." So one way to read C "gibberish" is to ignore the type at the beginning and parse the rest as an expression like…

Yeah, thanks to C pointer syntax, there's a big faction of programmers that think that understanding indirect addressing is a major intellectual accomplishment. I don't have anything better to offer though - C pointers make a whole lot possible in a very terse way.

Going beyond declarations with this idea: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Baccash/