You can always find cases where it would fail. And that's ok. For what it's doing, and what it allows it's simply unbelievable (at least to me) how it succeeds

You can always find cases where it would fail. And that's ok. For what it's doing, and what it allows it's simply unbelievable (at least to me) how it succeeds in doing it (I understand very little of compilers, and little of interpretters). One area which is not easy translatable is OpenMP (www.openmp.org), inlined assembly, and SSE packed floats. But that's okay, and even then there is probably a better alternative - a language more suited to such tasks, instead of "C" - OpenCL (www.khronos.org) or DirectCompute. But for general coding, it's very very good.