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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:30PM (#12316992)
I said that I understood the language after reading K&R. The language is simple. Using it safely? Not so simple. I didn't claim that it was.

On the other hand, I learned BASIC on a TRS-80. Safe? Not with the POKE command being part of the language.

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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by nickpsecurity on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:03PM (#12317140)
Ok. Fair enough haha.
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