C++ Sucks

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

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Char is defined as the smallest non-bitfield type available. If you were to suddenly redefine it as 32-bit unicode (wchar_t ahoy!), you'd break lots of shit. If Java or C# is what you want, go use Java or C#. Even in those you have to mind your Unicode combining characters etc, so a char may not represent a single character by itself after all...

Complex types on the other hand are something that many HPC-oriented compilers have supported for a while, all in their mildly incompatible forms. It's something they basically had to standardize.

I will grant you that they could've finally excised gets() from the standard library. But other than that and perhaps strtok(), shit, I don't see how the C standard library is so bad.

Perhaps you just need to get yourself a proper utility library if you're looking to do application development; I'd recommend the GTK utility library, glib, if you can stomach the way it allocates tiny little bits of memory for rb-tree nodes and follows an overly verbose g_function_naming_policy(). On the plus side, glib's got unicode handling functions that don't suck seven kinds of ass!