A long-standing programming language widely used even at low levels, such as OSes and hardware control.
A procedural language capable of low-level memory manipulation. It's a foundational language that has influenced many modern languages and OS implementations. The language performs no automatic bounds checking on arrays and no automatic memory deallocation, so an out-of-range access or a leak isn't caught as a runtime error and can trigger undefined behavior directly -- that same freedom is what gives C both its speed and its danger.
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