Actually, yes, I think a lot of people would define automatic memory management as not having to manually call free. C does manage some memory automatically. B

Actually, yes, I think a lot of people would define automatic memory management as not having to manually call free. C does manage some memory automatically. But it leaves a lot of memory management up to the user, such that any non-trivial C program will manually manage memory. That's different from Rust, Go, Java, or D in that most programs in those languages will not need to do that.