But C wasn't made for safe code, it was made as a replacement for assembly language to implement Unix in. And that it arguably did well ;-) Incidentally, accor

But C wasn't made for safe code, it was made as a replacement for assembly language to implement Unix in. And that it arguably did well ;-) Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, development of C started in 1972, the same year buffer overflows as a concept were first documented.