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Re:The ugliest C feature: <tgmath.h> by quizmaster on Monday December 26, 2011 @02:24PM (#3393680)
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.

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Re:The ugliest C feature: <tgmath.h> by plorkyeran on Monday December 26, 2011 @06:27PM (#3394208)
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.

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