> It was embraced by everyone because of its speed and simplicity. Exactly. The same thing with TCP/IP. People complain about C and TCP/IP because security was

> It was embraced by everyone because of its speed and simplicity. Exactly. The same thing with TCP/IP. People complain about C and TCP/IP because security wasn't baked into these technologies. That's because that wasn't the big concern back then. And the reason C and TCP/IP have legs is because they are very good at what they do. You get the same thing with people complaining about SQL, HTML and every other language/protocol/technology.