[defectbydesign]

I am sorry to tell this but the C programming language doesn't need anymore the ISO committee since it introduced non de facto standard features such as VLA.

For reference I still use The C Programming Language by KERNIGHAN/RITCHIE and The Standard C Library by PLAUGER.

In my view what programmers need the most is good practices rather than any syntactic sugar.

I prefer C rather than any other programming language for its conciseness.

There is opportunities for any new programming language to replace C if it is at least backward compatible with K&R C SE (aka ISO C90) and provides a portable access to de facto standard hardware acceleration such as SIMD instructions for vector computing.

For now we have to write in assembly language SIMD optimized libraries in order to get the full calculation power of modern processors.

For programmers who expect C to bring them a hot drink, I would recommend them to stick with the bloated C++ framework which sometimes enlarges your p*s. :-P

[defectbydesign]

No answer but -2 points.

It seems cowards don't have any argument. :-)