What's C's biggest mistake?

[Tommi]

On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 18:45:35 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> Well, then read type declarations left-to-right. It's the 
> strangest decision in design of golang to reverse type 
> declarations. I always read byte[] as `byte array`, not `an 
> array of bytes`.

How do you read byte[5][2] from left to right? "Byte arrays of 5 
elements 2 times in an array". It's impossible. On the other 
hand, [5][2]byte reads nicely from left to right: "Array of 5 
arrays of 2 bytes". You start with the most important fact: that 
it's an array. Then you start describing what the array is made 
of.