My take: rethink the problem and the solution. While there are perfect applications of the preprocessor (such as pasting or stringifying tokens) - yes at some p

My take: rethink the problem and the solution. While there are perfect applications of the preprocessor (such as pasting or stringifying tokens) - yes at some point (rather sooner than later) it gets unmaintainable. But I don't share the sentiment that C wasn't powerful. It has everything one needs (and, due to memory control and cpp, arguably more than most languages). These days I mostly use C, and occasionally resort to python as an accompanying scripting language to generate data definitions (either in plain text formats or as C structures).