[simias]

I would argue that the C for loop is a rather awkward construct. It's found its way in many languages, so I think most people are used to its idiosyncrasy but it's not great if you try to take a fresh look at it.

I think the best defense of this syntax is that it makes writing basic iteration a bit nicer without having to add boilerplate (the iconic `for (i = 0; i < n; i++)`) but then I would argue that the real problem is that C is severely lacking in the iteration department and this is a rather obvious hack (that languages like Javascript felt the need to copy wholesale, for some insane reason).