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Why are characters and booleans irelevant to C programming?

Referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C_(programming_language)&diff=930371741&oldid=930367380&diffmode=source

@Fbergo: Why are booleans and characters irelevant to C (programming language)? --Kreyren (talk) 11:40, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

• They are not irrelevant, and both are already mentioned in the first paragraph of the Data Types section. This article is already quite long for wikipedia (WP:TOOLONG), repeating information is not an improvement. Your tutorial-like sections on basic types only made the article less readable. The article should not be a language tutorial (WP:NOTTEXTBOOK). Fbergo (talk) 14:39, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Assuming incorrect use of print formatted in an example

Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:C_(programming_language)/Archive_8#%22Hello,_world%22_example as referenced in the current page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C_(programming_language)&diff=930286305&oldid=930286262) as:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("hello, world\n");
}

Looks like wrong use of pritnf where

print formatted (printf) is designed to work with a provided format as referenced on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf_format_string#Syntax meaning that the correct code should look like:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("%s\n", "Hello world");
//         ^^^^^^ - Notice format string for printf used
}

This should be updated for all printf mensions in this article. --Kreyren (talk) 23:19, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

A printf format string need not have parameter format specifications. Adding them where not needed is distracting to the reader. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 00:56, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Source

In private conversation with Bjorn Sjostrup, he confirmed that previous compilers from other coders were considered as sources for good ideas, as was the norm for the time: we were building an industry, and the patent rights now claimed should be carefully examined as non-original work: bubble sorting and bitmapped fonts were part of this for sure, because I worked on them! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.197.51.50 (talk) 22:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

That's a start. You might be able to find a reliable source. Private conversations aren't that. TEDickey (talk) 22:56, 7 July 2020 (UTC)