Dude, it's in the first sentence. > Every once in a while someone suggests to me that curl and libcurl would do better if rewritten in a “safe language”. And

Dude, it's in the first sentence. > Every once in a while someone suggests to me that curl and libcurl would do better if rewritten in a “safe language”. And so he minimally addresses that and some other reasons for sticking with (and originally choosing) C89.