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by stephencanon 5053 days ago
This; a few other especially inexcusable oversights that result from ignoring C99:

- telling students to make up types like Int32 or Int16 instead of using the fixed-width types defined in <stdint.h>.

- Claiming that // comments are "not technically part of the language".

- "C does not have a distinct boolean type."