C made mediocrity and unreliability the accepted standard. As parent says, C’s a great choice for writing OS kernels. It should have stayed there. Imagine if u

C made mediocrity and unreliability the accepted standard. As parent says, C’s a great choice for writing OS kernels. It should have stayed there. Imagine if upon purchasing an automobile you had to agree that if the wheels fly off and the engine explodes and you all die horribly in a hurtling ball of glame, you (or your estate) have absolutely no rights to sue the manufacturer for that outcome. Look at the Ford Pinto, look at Merck’s Vioxx; look at every bit of employee and customer safety legislation written over the years and why it got written in the first place. Now go read your software EULAs, and explain to us how a culture of shameless recklessness borne on zero liability is so positive for progress again? As I’ve said before, geeks are not the only ones to blame for this, but they are the ones who actually enjoy it this way.