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   Keith Thompson  writes:   
      
   > bart  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 09/10/2025 04:49, BGB wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >> Nobody cares about C syntax.   
   >   
   > That is so manifestly untrue that I can't imagine what you actually   
   > meant.   
   >   
   > Many of us, myself included, don't particularly like some aspects of   
   > C syntax, but that's not the same as not caring about it.   
   >   
   >>                              Learning all its ins and outs seems be   
   >> a rite of passage.   
   >   
   > Perhaps.  It's also necessary if you want to work with the language.   
   >   
   >> The trouble is that C-style is so dominant, few people would know   
   >> what a decent syntax looks like.  Or, more, likely, they associate   
   >> a clean, well-designed syntax with toy or scripting languages, and   
   >> can't take it seriously.   
   >>   
   >> But if it looks as hairy as C++ then it must be the business!   
   >   
   > C syntax has survived and been propagated to other languages because   
   > it's well known, not, I think, because anybody really likes it.   
      
   I like C syntax, most of it anyway.  Even the parts I don't   
   especially like aren't horrendous, which is more than I can   
   say for some other popular languages.   
      
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