C has very simple types and allows for untyped operations very easily. Say you cast some ptr of type void* to Foo*: at least in Python you would get a dynamic type error if the cast was incorrect; in C you are lucky if your program immediately crashes.
C has some static type safety, and virtually no run-time type safety. Java on the other hand, has a lot of static type safety, is completely memory safe (barring bugs in the implementation), and checks all coercions dynamically. Python has what Java has dynamically, and nothing statically, but it is still 10 times better than what C has!
C has some static type safety, and virtually no run-time type safety. Java on the other hand, has a lot of static type safety, is completely memory safe (barring bugs in the implementation), and checks all coercions dynamically. Python has what Java has dynamically, and nothing statically, but it is still 10 times better than what C has!