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Noting that that link was closed as "not constructive".

Not sure what about (say) ANSI C is particularly ugly. The business about pointers to arrays versus pointers to array elements is a bit annoying (and a mistake in retrospect). But that's about it. The rest makes perfect sense.

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> The rest makes perfect sense.

Yes, if we are in 1967, just before Algol-68 was proposed.

Arguably Algol was better, in the sense of being higher-level and with fewer sharp edges. But it looks like C probably exposes a lot more of what's actually going on with memory, pointers, the stack, the heap, etc. That's not always good, but you'll learn a lot that you can't really get with a language like Java or Python.

well, the many overloaded meanings of stars is cumbersome.

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