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I suppose this article is tongue-in-cheek but it doesn't really demonstrate lies in the C language. It does point out some of the quirks of arrays in C but not

I suppose this article is tongue-in-cheek but it doesn't really demonstrate lies in the C language. It does point out some of the quirks of arrays in C but not calling them real arrays is a matter of interpretation of terms. C defined what the term array meant for a lot of the languages that followed it. That today's languages have diverged from C's definition of array is not surprising.

burntsushi 10y ago
From the OP: > Of course, if you’ve read this far you’ll (hopefully) realise that this post should have been taken in jest. Arrays aren’t really a lie (any more than any of C’s constructs are). Despite all the ‘trickery’ C’s arrays work well for many, many programming tasks. They are – as the title of this article suggests – a very convenient set of untruths.