C's syntax (was Re: Python Formatted C Converter (PfCC))

[Erik Max Francis]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Bingo.  Very good word-choice.  C manages to be effective DESPITE
> its "tortured" syntax, *because* syntax, fortunately, is _not_ as
> important as all that (and people get used to almost-anything if
> they have to use it long enough -- they even grow to _like_ it,
> as a peculiar but well-known psychological phenomenon, which I've
> already compared, half-jokingly, to the Stockholm Syndrome).

People who like C don't think that C's syntax is "tortured."  People who
don't like C think that it is.  It's a religious war.

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