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"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
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"In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people dont screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that do actually understand low-level issues and dont screw things up with any idiotic "object model" crap."
C (programming language)
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C is a general-purpose programming language created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie. By design, C gives the programmer relatively direct access to the features of the typical CPU architecture, customized for the target instruction set. It has been and continues to be used to implement operating systems, device drivers, and protocol stacks, but its use in application software has been decreasing. C
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