I hate to say it, but I was rather unimpressed by this list, and nothing in it surprised me. While I certainly agree that the C preprocessor is a relic, and has

I hate to say it, but I was rather unimpressed by this list, and nothing in it surprised me. While I certainly agree that the C preprocessor is a relic, and has not weathered the test of time well, I would suggest that a number of the supposed infelicities mentioned in this article stem from the misleading idea that the preprocessor is an integral part of the C language proper, when it is better thought of as its own language (and one that was traditionally done by a completely separate program). The preprocessor does things differently than the rest of C, because it's not C. It is a text-processing language of convenience, provided specifically for doing things that C itself cannot (or should not) do.