Criticism of the C programming language: Difference between revisions

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It has been observed that C code by programmers who were trained in a strict language (such as Pascal) using structured programming, is easy to read and be maintained. The most difficult C code is from the early period where many programmers wanted to squeeze too much into a cryptic one liner. Today we know that software maintenance is much too costly to allow for such eccentricity. As better compilers became available and standard habits of coding as well as explicitly [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/lab/secondyear/cstyle/cstyle.html standardized codeC-layoutcoding styles] have been achieved, many of the disadvantages of C have been alleviated, in practice.

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