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People that don't write portable C code think that they know 95-100% of the language.

I don't miss the days in the late 90's, early 2000, writing portable C code across multiple compilers from each OS vendor, across all major UNIX flavours and Windows.

Many that think to master C, actually master C in compiler X targeting OS Y.




What a sweeping generalization. Perhaps. But it's certainly easier to master portable C than portable C++.


Yes, that is quite true.

However I prefer that pain, to the lack of strong typing that C++ offers over C.

But better would be to use something else instead of C and C++, more type safe, without UB and without the wide range of implementation differences and compiler extensions.




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