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Notice how in any sane language this shit is not necessary? Why is C such shit?

C is shit because you, as a programmer, are shit. Better languages do exist, but you will never find them. On the off chance you did, you wouldnt recognize it; it would be just more shit to you. You do not deserve better. Not you, not your compsci 101 professor, not Shiva your curry-reeking coworker, not Lamdba A. Calculus, not Lambdadelta, not Lain, not Ken Thompson, not even The Anti-Cuddet himself. You are a shit eating worm. You are no more than a little parasitic worm, shat out of a cow into in a large field full of cow shit. A shitworm's station in life is to wiggle around in its little shit pile and eat that shit, processing it just enough that grass can grow and you can make a whole new generations out of shitworms. Put bluntly, your destiny is to turn shit into shitworms. Furthermore, a shitworm lacks even the capacity to aspire higher, the best you can do is search for tastier shit to eat. So quit looking for sugar dropped to you by your superiors, and get back to munching shit with the rest of the shitworms, because that is all you will ever be capable of finding.