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For someone who can already program, such things are trivial to learn.

If you class doing basic design work and taking time to document it as "arrogance" then I'm afraid you may be suffering from negative mindset.

It's important to note that a lot of C programmers don't really understand the C declaration syntax anyway. Most are familiar with the simple cases, very few are familiar with how to declare complex types.

I can barely read this: void (signal(int, void (fp)(int)))(int);

I can read this easily: func signal(int, func(int)) func(int)

> throwing away all of that familiarity in the name of elegance

That looks like a good deal to me! :)