I think you're right. I'm by no measure a C programmer, but I've always regarded it as something that people don't like coding in because it's difficult, not because it's a bad language. Most people complaining about C are like guitar players complaining about the piano. It's more complex, but it has to be given its role.
That said, the fact that K&R didn't specify the size of an int or long complicated matters, but it seems to be an accident of history, not a mistake in design. They had no choice.
That said, the fact that K&R didn't specify the size of an int or long complicated matters, but it seems to be an accident of history, not a mistake in design. They had no choice.