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		macintux on March 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Curl is C > One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes. That clearly wasn't the case when C was designed.

anp on March 27, 2017 [–]

I'd wager that using C prevents large classes of errors that would be common place in assembly.

That said, colloquial history seems to say that there were plenty of languages which did a better job at that than C.

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