Modern languages are like driving an automatic transmission car. You press the gas, you go. You don’t think about the combustion chamber. C, as presented by Bronson, is a manual transmission. You have to learn about the clutch (pointers), the gear shift (memory allocation), and the engine temperature (stack vs. heap).
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