Well, that's more or less true. Each has specific niches where it's slightly more applicable, but the two are pretty interchangeable, all things considered.
Except, of course, for pointer arithmetic. Sorry to be so obnoxious
Old Unix programmers never die, they just mv to /dev/null
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