[johnisgood]

I know it is easier to read, and it is not difficult to figure out what is going on (in this case), but many languages do not support list comprehensions (for example), so you have to implement it in a way that is similar to the C version, making the C version more helpful.

The example above may not highlight what I was trying to, however.

Perhaps Ada could work even better than C? It is verbose, yes, but you will immediately know what is going on.

My point is, that in my opinion verbosity is better than conciseness in cases of reference implementations.