Criticism of the C programming language: Difference between revisions

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C does not have some features that are available in some other programming languages:

* No assignment of arrays or strings (copying can be done via standard functions; assignment of objects having <code>struct</code> or <code>union</code> type is supported)

* No [[Garbage collection (computer science)|automatic garbage collection]]

* No requirement for [[bounds checking]] of arrays

* No [[array programming|operations on whole arrays]]

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* No compile-time polymorphism in the form of [[function (computer science)|function]] or [[operator]] [[overloading]]

* Only rudimentary support for [[generic programming]]

* NoVery directlimited support for [[object-oriented programming]] with regard to [[polymorphism in object-oriented programming|polymorphism]] orand [[inheritance (computer science)|inheritance]], although a limited form of these may be achieved with [[type punning]].

* Limited support for [[Information hiding|encapsulation]].

* No native support for [[multithreading]] and [[computer networks|networking]]

* No standard libraries for [[GUI|graphics]] and several other application programming needs