A lot of what C provides is not supposed to be used by application code. The string interface is the bare minimum one should use, but any reasonable application

A lot of what C provides is not supposed to be used by application code. The string interface is the bare minimum one should use, but any reasonable application should create its own higher level interface. The problem of the C community is that they never managed to create a reasonable string library, or if one was created it is seldom used. Future standards should introduce a higher level string library to fix this problem.