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> It also turns out that if you remove all the fancy abstraction and write everything out, the code becomes very maintainable and easy to manage.

This is key to the success of C (also the main reason stated by Linus Torvalds for his choice of the language). You can write really complicated code which may take time to unravel/comprehend but nothing is really done behind your back nor hidden (please let's not start with UB :-).




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