[pkmays]

From the Dr Dobb's link:

> The C99 standard is interesting because it was created at a time when a lot of people on the previous committee went away and did other things. And it was a smaller group that came over who were interested in a special-purpose area, and so it ended up having a lot of things that were not of general-purpose interest.

Sutter's comment seems spot on about the apparent departure of a lot of the original authors. C99 seems to have been designed by a group of people who's overriding motivation was FORTRAN envy.

Really, how many people were screaming for built-in complex types, type-generic math, or variable-length arrays? noalias even made it's way back into the language.

Take the Good Parts of C99: BCPL comments, long long, and <stdint.h>, and you've basically got MSVC's C compiler.

Good Parts of C11? Anonymous structs and unions. Plan 9 FTW.