A lot of people keep saying the biggest problem with C is that it makes it all too easy to shoot yourself in the foot. I disagree. (1/2)
IOW the problem with C is that it is too low-level and doesn't allow syntactic abstraction to build up the appropriate abstraction level.
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C is not even low level enough. It's neither. It's a faux-VM that passes as a social pivot because of co-evolved legacy.
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"The C Abstract Machine" as some call it.
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Yes that's principally the problem. C's abstractions bottom out at structs and second-class functions. The preprocessor acts as a bandage.
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