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To me, i think C is a powerful language that is weakened by 2 things:

1- Trying to find the proper style and methods to write few lines of code. The reason for this is because C is an old language that kept changing. Thus, you can read a book, yet find someone to tell you “you shouldn’t do it that way”.

2- compilers made C into different flavors. Microsoft C compiler provides scanf_s with the old scanf being deprecated. In the other hand, gcc has different approaches without the scanf_s that Microsoft has. This can be so annoying to use.



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