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C is simple. As a result, programming in C is not simple in any way.

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C is so simple, that you will need to read a 700-page, comitee-written manual befor you can attempt to write it correctly.

> C is so simple, that you will need to read a 700-page, comitee-written manual befor you can attempt to write it correctly.

The official C99 standard document is typically about 210 pages.

Admittedly the 700 pages include the appendix and it is only a draft version, but still...

Except the little detail that you need to complement that with all the manuals of the C compilers being used.