Buffer overflows of your own data are your responsibility. The main problem is that there is no effective way in the language to control (prevent, or at least

Buffer overflows of your own data are your responsibility. The main problem is that there is no effective way in the language to control (prevent, or at least detect) stack overflows. For example, when you reach a recursion limit or when you allocate too many automatic variables. For scientific computing, the ability to fearlessly declare a local matrix like "float A[n][n];" for arbitrary values of "n" would be invaluable.