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Re:Who Says C is Simple? by Genmutant on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @01:16PM (#6058856)
Also the standard library is really small. So after a short amount of time you have used almost all of it a few times.
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Re:Who Says C is Simple? by PySlice on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @06:29PM (#6060477)
However it's going to take some time to learn all the gotchas in string functions... Failing to zero-terminate strings (strncpy), potential buffer overflows (many), global internal buffer and overwriting an argument (strtok), etc etc etc etc
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