"Well I don't give a damn about my bad reputation."

[mnrvovrfc]

Let's look at C. Absolutely brilliant: the "symbol =" notation, e,g. a +=5 instead of a = a+5; a *= b instead of a= a*b etc. Brain dead moronic: case sensitivity of identifiers. It's hard enough keeping all the variables and manifest constants in a program in your head, now you also have to remember the capitalization of them. It also increases the possibility of confusion, if you have multiple variables with the same spelling.
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Say to the people that brought us both C and Unix they created a few things which are "brain dead moronic". Also some companies depend on obfuscation for "defending" their "property": I saw an example of working C++ code which was nothing but "A", "a", "B" and "b" -- advertising on M$DN if I'm not mistaken long ago. :/