Criticism of the C programming language: Difference between revisions

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* A fragile system for importing definitions (<code>#include</code>) that relies on literal text inclusion and redundantly keeping prototypes and function definitions in sync, and increases build times.

* A cumbersome compilation model that complicates dependency tracking and [[compiler optimization]]s between modules.

* A weak type system that lets many clearly erroneous programs compile without errors, although most compilers will issue a warning.

==Tools for mitigating issues with C==