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This is a gross oversimplification. C gives you the enough rope to either hang yourself or build abstractions. If you choose not to do the latter...

"Lying" is an odd way to look at it when the truth of the matter is that your code is ultimately running on hardware that has no notion of type.

As my old boss used to say, "Technically correct and entirely unhelpful".

Really? In my experience the compiler has always been very specific about passing wrong types to functions, even to the point where it's annoying...