> some of the harshest criticisms from others I have seen of C are not from expert practitioners in C. But were they expert practitioners of C in the past? My

> some of the harshest criticisms from others I have seen of C are not from expert practitioners in C. But were they expert practitioners of C in the past? My experience is that most of the harshest criticisms of C come from former C experts who moved on to other languages because it became clear to them that C would never be fixed - Walter Bright included.