True, but then someone will pop up and announce UB! (This probably isn't ub though). Anyway, my main point was that c has more boilerplate. It's never 'a+b'.

True, but then someone will pop up and announce UB! (This probably isn't ub though). Anyway, my main point was that c has more boilerplate. It's never 'a+b'. Second, printf is complicated, that's aimed more at the op though.