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C is the only language that will run on certain strange systems, and that is the only reason that most of these quibbles even matter. It's more of an argument of "What is the most portable way to write C?" C is a very small and elegant language that never lies to you. There aren't any useless functions that are specific to one use case, and things that you don't really, really need are simply left out of the language…
>C is a very small and elegant language that never lies to you. I've liked: http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.php ..and... https://www.google.com/search?q=expert+c+programming+deep+c+...
Also don't miss:
http://blog.robertelder.org/7-weird-old-things-about-the-c-p...