By "fixing", I suppose, they meant "to eliminate the known evil that rooted deeply in the software world, such as unsafe languages, unexpressive boilerplate lan

By "fixing", I suppose, they meant "to eliminate the known evil that rooted deeply in the software world, such as unsafe languages, unexpressive boilerplate languages, and so on". Making sure the evil is dead for good would have been quite an achievement, sufficient to be called a "fix". Definitely not a final fix, but a step in a right direction indeed.