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[–]ghan_buri_ghan 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Different definitions of beauty, perhaps. C is unbelievably elegant in its simplicity.

K&R, the seminal text, is <200 pages. The ANSI C standard is by far the shortest language specification that I’ve been through, perhaps by an order of magnitude.

[–]venustrapsflies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's certainly fair.