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Not that error handling is unimportant, but my opinion is that C is about focusing on resource usage, and keeping very close track over giving back any resource
by stevewepay 11y ago
Not that error handling is unimportant, but my opinion is that C is about focusing on resource usage, and keeping very close track over giving back any resource you take, including memory, etc. If you do that, then the number of hard-to-debug runtime bugs drops significantly.
- pjmlp 11y agoMany languages of that era were about it and did it safer, C just happens to be the one that won the market.