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There's a lot in "C", but I don't see anything in it that really isn't needed to serve its modern purpose. In 2022 "C" is used as a portable assembly language.

There's a lot in "C", but I don't see anything in it that really isn't needed to serve its modern purpose. In 2022 "C" is used as a portable assembly language. When you really need to control where and how memory is allocated, and represent data structures used directly by the hardware in a high-level language.

pif 4y ago
> In 2022 "C" is used as a portable assembly language. No! Only poor programmers use C while reasoning assembly, and then they complain about undefined behaviour.