Moar Linus on Sepples

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Function overloading. Namespaces. Methods.

Good? Bad? LET /prog/ DECIDE

Notice how the language is basically described by one
rather thin book. Readably.
So what C does so well is to do that whole "make it as
simple as you can, but no simpler". And that is what makes
it great. The language is powerful, yet fairly minimal.
There really aren't many features you could remove
from the C language without crippling it. Sure, there's
three different looping constructs, and you could make
trivial (syntactic) changes to the language, but that's
really not the point. The language is simple, but
without being too simple.

conclusion: C is great because it's like Scheme