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C is a general-purpose computer programming language used for operating systems, games and other high performance work.

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Isn't the use of pointer variables a memory overhead?

In C you can use complex data structures like string and structures due to pointers only. … You should use pointers only when you have no other choice like missing data-types, structures(in c) as using pointers may be lead to errors if not handled properly and are comparatively harder to debug …
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