It's more than just for stupid compilers, otherwise a newline would serve that purpose as it does in other languages. Sometimes I like writing multi-line single statements (e.g. a function call with huge parameter count) and not have to conversely write a special character to denote a line continuation after carriage return.

Perhaps if you limit "for" to linear iterations. I kind of prefer the "for (init;true;post) ..." format as a clearer "init;while(true){...;post;}"

True, #define, typedef, standard declares mix me up sometimes.

I'm with you on this, if you want everything on its own line.

The same reason mathematical ones are symbols, I suppose. It was logical ;) Real-world match actually uses symbols for logic as well.

There is a PEMDAS going deeper to include logic. Use parenthesis to make it stupidly clear if unsure.

Only for those coming from different-styled languages. The = as both a value assign and zero/nonzero check has come in handy many times, and shortens code both visually and compiled.

Can't argue that. C and SQL are the only langs I can think of with double commenters.

What's wrong with the break statement in switch? I like the comma listing cases over multiple stacked cases.