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• •Set up a C programming environment with shell facilities, makefiles, text editors, debuggers, and memory checkers
• •Use Autotools, C’s de facto cross-platform package manager
• •Learn about the problematic C concepts too useful to discard
• •Solve C’s string-building problems with C-standard functions
• •Use modern syntactic features for functions that take structured inputs
• •Build high-level, object-based libraries and programs
• •Perform advanced math, talk to internet servers, and run databases with existing C libraries