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by umanwizard 3414 days ago
Maybe we mean different things by the word "simple". What language do you think is simpler than C?
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Scheme, ML, Java, Lua...
Yeah, we must have different definitions of simplicity, as I expected.

Just off the top of my head, Java has the following complexities that C lacks: exceptions, garbage collection, class inheritance, generics, and a very large standard library.

What definition of simplicity are you using when you say Java is simpler than C?