On: The descent to C

[pjmlp]

> But that isn't a property that's built into the C language itself.

It is, as it makes very easy to blow your leg off.

C only works properly in the hands of small teams with AAA developers.

[mtdewcmu → pjmlp]

>It is, as it makes very easy to blow your leg off.

I have never seen a bug-proof programming language. If a language lets you do anything at all, then it will let you write bugs. So I don't see it as a weakness that C allows you to write bugs. If you have easy access to memory, then you can easily corrupt memory.