[quizmaster]

Uglier than trigraphs?

Also, I've long wondered why complex numbers were added to C. They seem like an inappropiately feature for a systems language.

[plorkyeran]

Trigraphs are certainly weird, but they're also simple enough that I wouldn't really consider them ugly.

I assume complex numbers were added for the same reason as tgmath.h: a mostly failed attempt to get people to switch from Fortran to C.