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    "C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at=20
    run time."
    said Csaba R=C3=A1duly at Morgan Stanley yesterday in a LinkedIn thread whi= ch=20
    alas mainly advocates C.

    In the same thread on the same day, Val=C3=A9riy Kazantsev wrote:
    "they fixed a couple of issues in C23 which were 50 years overdue.=20
    Let's hope that by C37 the language will finally start checking types, for=
    =20
    god's sake."

    In the same thread on the same day, Michael B=C3=BCsch wrote:
    "C is not simple.
    C is not honest.

    C is Undefined Behavior waiting to stab you into your back in the moment=20 when you expect it the least.

    It is hard to write correct C programs.
    C only seems simple on its surface, until you find out about its inner=20 workings."
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