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  • msa@mastodon.sdf.orgtoProgramming@beehaw.orgWhy is C hidden gold?
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    9 hours ago

    @xigoi
    > It’s a messy and incoherent language full of fotguns and unnecessary complexity
    What language isn’t? C is of course not perfect and there are many things I wish would have changed in the language but its quite a productive language and there is a reason it became the lingua franca. Of course a lot of that has to with it’s relationship with Unix.