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Hating C because it has integer division is like hating haskell because it is functional. It is inherently low level. C's real problem is that is has undefined behavior in a lot of cases. C with some kind of compile-time memory protection and no undefined behavior (so basically Rust) would be a pretty sweet systems programming language.


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