> Assignment as an expression is bug-prone Can be fixed without syntax change other than returning void. > The precedence for the binary operators is wonky B

> Assignment as an expression is bug-prone Can be fixed without syntax change other than returning void. > The precedence for the binary operators is wonky But that's the precedence everyone is accustomed with. D enhance this by forbidding some non-parenthesized dangerous expressions. > Optional braces in if statements make the grammar ambiguous and is also bug prone (the infamous Apple goto bug) I've definately seen such bugs. > The type-declaration syntax is convoluted and people need tools like cdecl to understand the more tricky ones. This is fixed in languages that still feel C-like in syntax. > The cast syntax is ambiguous and resolving this ambiguity relies on adding dirty hacks to the lexer to tell the parser about type names. Yup.