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C gets a lot of crap, sometimes for good reason, but one thing I like about it is that the question of whether C is allocating something is easy to answer, at least for your own code.


It is nice.

Although, there are also modern, beautiful, user friendly languages where allocation is mostly obvious. Like Fortran.


Oh my. You don't see Fortran being called modern very often.


Writing C like Fortran (no heap) is even better when you can!


This comment is 35 years out of date.


Depends on the processor you target.


Sadly most Fortran I come across has not evolved with the language


C programmers never beating the allegations of not using libraries


Python is entirely a C program, ergo by this article, this seems like one of those fallacies C programs believe justifies using C


Yeah, if you consider the Python interpreter "your own code".


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