> "Who Says C is Simple?"

People who don't know what "simple" means and confuse it with "easy".

https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2017/01/02/simple-is-not-ea...

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

"Easy" things almost always lead to astonishing complexity.

Also it's easy to see just how complex C is: Have a look at a formal description of it! (And compare to a truly simple language like e.g. LISP).

https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics/tree/master/semant...

In contrast some basic Lambda calculus language semantics fit 0.5 of a page in K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaIKHQOo4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Tf1EZVj8E

+1 for simple is not easy, yet with enough thinking and ingenious ideas, it is achievable. Thank for the links.

"simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -- Leonardo da Vinci

> return ({goto L; 0;}) && ({L: 5;});

What in the world…!!

It’s in the GCC section so I assume it’s some kind of lambda-function-like compiler extension? That allows jumping between bodies of two different functions…!

It's "statement exprs": "A compound statement enclosed in parentheses may appear as an expression in GNU C. This allows you to use loops, switches, and local variables within an expression. [...] The last thing in the compound statement should be an expression followed by a semicolon; the value of this subexpression serves as the value of the entire construct." [0]

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html