Great now you made C look stupid again.

I am not a C developer but I used to think that there was some sanity in the design. Now that residual sanity I thought was left in C has faded away. I retract all my comments in this HN submission that defend C. Whenever anyone reads them, they should consider them made erroneously in good faith by a person who wanted to justify some of the weird decisions made in C but it turns out they were just plain silly.

Edit: actually now that I think about I'm willing to extend goodwill to C retroactively if sparkie retracts his silly nitpick and makes it charitable instead.