It could be worse, but for the long-term evolution of computing, we should be working towards convergent systems. There's enough subtlety and imprecision in the

It could be worse, but for the long-term evolution of computing, we should be working towards convergent systems. There's enough subtlety and imprecision in the C spec that it's not well suited to convergence. Among type issues, it also has the infamous "Macros" that are really just unanalyzable text replacements.