C's syntax is pretty lacking by modern standards, requiring gross things like The Lexer Hack to resolve ambiguities that other languages just don't suffer from:

C's syntax is pretty lacking by modern standards, requiring gross things like The Lexer Hack to resolve ambiguities that other languages just don't suffer from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexer_hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexer_hack . To say nothing of the madness that is C's type declaration syntax, necessitating tools like https://cdecl.org/ https://cdecl.org/ and "the spiral rule" for reading type declarations (which doesn't actually produce the correct result anyway).