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How can C Programs be so Reliable?

Henry Spencer said, “Those who don’t understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.” And that’s probably why so many of the programs written in C are more reliable than our prejudices might suggest - the UNIX culture, the oldest and wisest in mainstream computing, has found ways of turning some of C’s limitations and flaws into advantages.