Within ... months(2? 3?) of starting learning 'C'. I no longer produced code that was capable of array bounds violations. Of course you slip up now and again,

Within ... months(2? 3?) of starting learning 'C'. I no longer produced code that was capable of array bounds violations. Of course you slip up now and again, but it's just a matter of habits. This was in 1987 or so. Perhaps that was unusual; I don't know. It was part of the culture where I worked. I'd programmed professionally in Pascal before, so I'm familiar wit the compare/contrast here. Tactically, it was safer, because 'C' covered more than did Pascal, and the balance of the code when you used pascal was assembly. Perhaps the assembly was sufficiently dangerous that we didn't make as many mistakes, so who knows? We felt assembler was more of a liability. The choices were more limited then. Performance, shmerformance - darn near everything runs fast enough, now, with the exception of a few grotty corners. Rust/Python/what have you are all very nice. I just sympathize with the poor people who get drafted into working on 'C' code bases without seeming to be happy about it. I personally would find somebody to mentor me a bit and review the code if I were in those shoes. Perhaps that sort of thing has passed; shame if it has.