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nuancing the C part of the go article!

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## Go fixed C
The last few years, I find myself writing a bit of C/C++ code. It's safe to say that I hate every minute of it. Go is heavily influenced by C, but luckily comes with a garbage collector. Furthermore, the designers of Go were smart enough to only steal the best features of C - and not to look at C++ at all. For example, there is no pointer arithmetic. At least not without resorting to the `unsafe` package and `uintptr`. Another blessing and ease-of-use is the implicit conversion of values to pointers and pointers to values. Consider the following example in C:
The last few years, I find myself writing a fair bit of C++ code. It's safe to say that I detest every minute of the "++" part... Go is heavily influenced by C, but luckily comes with a garbage collector. Furthermore, the designers of Go were smart enough to only steal the best features of C - and not to look at C++ at all. For example, there is no pointer arithmetic. At least not without resorting to the `unsafe` package and `uintptr`. Another blessing and ease-of-use is the implicit conversion of values to pointers and pointers to values. Consider the following example in C:
```C
struct elephant {