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who said C is simple? :S

• pavanky 12y ago
  It is fairly simply if you understand how the data types and data structures are laid out in memory. The problems are with the corner cases like he mentions at the beginning of his post.
• EpicEng 12y ago
  C is simple, but that doesn't mean it's not powerful, and with power comes... yada yada yada. There are many edge cases to be sure, but as a language, its constructs and features are very simple.
• kd0amg 12y ago
  A lot of people have said it. They develop a mental model that is a rough approximation of its semantics, see that their mental model is simple and conclude that the semantics itself must also be simple. Then other people write articles like these to remind the first group that their "simple" mental model is not the actual semantics, just an approximation.
• userbinator 12y ago
  After looking at the JavaScript/ECMAscript standard, or even C++, C feels positively trivial in comparison.
• deleted 12y ago
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