I mean, the function for straight printing is puts; I don't know why people keep using the much more complicated printf in cases where no formatting is involved

I mean, the function for straight printing is puts; I don't know why people keep using the much more complicated printf in cases where no formatting is involved. Edit: OK, I guess puts includes a newline, so you'd need to use fputs if you don't want that (although this example includes one). Still, both of those are much less complicated than printf!