> The thing is, C also makes me aware of what is happening, by letting programs fail when I forget about certain things. That isn't true at all. The majority

> The thing is, C also makes me aware of what is happening, by letting programs fail when I forget about certain things. That isn't true at all. The majority of my and other's bugs I hit working with C (I did C for several years at a large company) were because they explicitly did not fail when people forgot things. If you iteratively learn C you learn tons of bad behaviors as C does not tell you when things are broken.