I completely agree. In my opinion, it's too similar to c++. So basically the only thing you had to do is to figure out how to read data (that turned out to be quite similar to C as well). After that it was just solving trivial problems in a familiar language.

Even though it's my first ULR, for future rounds I'd prefer languages with much weirder syntax (something like APL :) ) or non-imperative paradigm (maybe something functional). In that case participants would have to learn something more than just another few library functions.