I really don't think we judge PLs the same way. To me C is the definition of broken, it doesn't even have proper aggregate data-types, much less a type system.

I really don't think we judge PLs the same way. To me C is the definition of broken, it doesn't even have proper aggregate data-types, much less a type system. Python is a work in progress, though it improves between versions. Last time I used it, back in 1999, it was a bad calculator.