"C Sucks"

Well, I did say that, but that's with regard to strings and string manipulation, because in C strings are arrays and arrays are pointers, and, well, "pointers suck".

I'm a BASIC brat myself, so I often myself longing for the inefficient but utterly simplistic string handling functions like LEFT$, RIGHT$, MID$, INSTR, STR$ and their ilk. Often, I'd like to be able to create functions with like functionality in C, but, well, the code gets in the way. At least strings are objects in C++ and Java, so + works like it should.

Anyways, have to remember to do some accounting later...