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It's not just the comparison that's fussy; if that would be it then that would be fine. It's mostly the really messy, inconsistent, and difficult to use standard library that turns me off personally. And this isn't about inconsistent argument order or naming, I can deal with that as well, but stuff like not being able to create temporary files well, or not being able to check for specific errors in fopen(), and a long list of similar things. These are things that make writing simple, correct, and elegant programs very hard, or sometimes even impossible.