It seems that this standard definitely goes for clarity of code over syntactic shortcuts. Which, you know, is probably a good idea for critical system software

It seems that this standard definitely goes for clarity of code over syntactic shortcuts. Which, you know, is probably a good idea for critical system software on an aircraft. It's better for your intermediate developers to know exactly what your code is going to do than to be able to use some greybeard tricks that can lead to buffer overflows if the person modifying them doesn't know exactly how they work.