Guaranteed simple flow And then there's setjmp/longjmp. Clear and unambiguous Aside from all the undefined and implementation-defined behavior. A macro prep

Guaranteed simple flow And then there's setjmp/longjmp. Clear and unambiguous Aside from all the undefined and implementation-defined behavior. A macro preprocessor Which just does plain, dumb text substitution with no understanding of program syntax (or the environment where the expanded macro will appear!). CPP's macro system is a pretty leaky abstraction. The other points are why I use C (when I use C), but I wouldn't make these three arguments in favor of C.