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That's strawman C. We could just as easily write hideous C++, Ruby, Python, etc. code and complain about that.

Edit: By this I mean; if you want to prefer the C++ libraries, that's fine, but please don't claim C is inherently ugly.

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How is it strawman C? If you want to use qsort, which anyone who has used C for any amount of time has, it's something you've written many times.

I think I misinterpreted your argument as being about the syntax instead of the type system. I would actually prefer the option of a stricter type system in C.

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