If C were a foreign country...

It would always feel like visiting the past. But a past that makes so much of a certian kind of sense. The trains run on time, there's an order and sanity to everything, and citizens are also given great personal freedom and responsibility, and a vast and noble history informs all. Almost makes up for having to wear a hat and gloves, and fill out 3 page forms for every simple task. Pity about the strikes that bring everything to a screeching halt if a single number is transposed.

(And then there's the strange bordering dutchy of C++, where things are different, and scary. Don't go there.)