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For sharpening your axe ##C is amazing, but beginners are regularly mocked and burned at the stake there.

> "How do I allocate a string?"

> "But what is a string?"

> "You know that thing with letters in it. Seriously how do I allocate a string?"

> "Sorry we don't know what a string is, you'll need to define it for us first"

> "OK it's a contiguous chunk of bytes in RAM"

> "Sorry C has no concept of bytes or RAM."

That kind of impractical nonsense.




In C, there is no stack.




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