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Re:Curl is C by Too on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:45AM (#13974407)
> A C programmer approaching an unfamiliar codebase can feel assured that it is made out of the same concise set of constructs as any other C program.

Plus a shit load of user defined macros to make it look like a modern language.

Every major c repo will have their own macros for foreach, cleanup on exit, logerrorandreturn, etc. Another example is extensive use of attributes like _cleanup_ from gcc to simulate raii, not plain c89 at all.

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