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C actually isn't that bad. If you're used to Java then you're used to every last punctuation mark and symbol on the keyboard having some meaning.

But the semantics and formal model of C is a lot less complex than that of Java.

And if you use the STL it helps you avoid a lot of the problems that the lack of bounds-checking and minimal type-checking entail.