> It's odd because HTML and javascript are so much more ambiguous and cause a lot of pain, yet I hear more complaints about C or C++. HTML implementations (and

> It's odd because HTML and javascript are so much more ambiguous and cause a lot of pain, yet I hear more complaints about C or C++. HTML implementations (and to extent JS) are very forgiving - you could have thousands of warnings and errors raised by linter, but page will still render mostly fine. In this regard C would be closer to XHTML which would fail to render unless it's "well formed" and, well, nobody uses it nowadays.