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Re:Deconstructing "K&R C" by marshray on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @06:05PM (#3449554)
No, C is specifically for situations where you don't want the language to "protect you from yourself". E.g. systems programming where little or no runtime performance will be sacrificed to enable imperfect code to be safe.
Re:Deconstructing "K&R C" by sliverstorm on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @07:08PM (#3449782)
Understood, it just catches people off guard and they get mad at C