Oh come on, pure K&R-C is a pain to read and write even for old-school C enthusiasts, and C99 brought some really nice improvements (like compound literals and

Oh come on, pure K&R-C is a pain to read and write even for old-school C enthusiasts, and C99 brought some really nice improvements (like compound literals and designated initialization) while not overloading the language with bells and whistles, it's mostly just logical extensions of existing syntax that should have worked to begin with. And C-isms like '= { 0 };' instead of '= { };' never really made a lot of sense.