Criticism of the C programming language: Difference between revisions

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===Economy of expression<ref>The heading of this section is borrowed from the first sentence of the preface to the first edition of Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie: ''The C Programming Language,'' reprinted in 2^nd ed., p. xi.</ref>===

One occasional criticism of C is that it can be concise to the point of being cryptic. A classic example that appears in K&R<ref>Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie: ''The C Programming Language,'' 2^nd ed., p. 106. Note that this example fails if the array <code>t</code> be larger than <code>s</code>, a complication that is handled by the safer library function <code>strncpy()</code>.</ref> is the following function to copy the contents of string <code>t</code> to string <code>s</code>:

void strcpy(char *s, char *t)