C is Brittle D is Plastic

[Walter Bright]

On 3/30/2026 5:31 AM, matheus wrote:
> Yes C has it flaws, but it's an older and popular language even these days. In 
> 90's it was a king among developers and even today there are project being 
> written with it. It's hard to compare with more flexible language today, so it's 
> look like brittle, but at the same time is less complex than newer languages. 
> Coming from C, sometimes I get lost reading new languages code and people making 
> simple things more complex.

C is indeed a simple language, but writing higher level code with it is awkward. 
Especially when one resorts to using the preprocessor for metaprogramming.