>Saying “C is a poorly designed language” usually amounts to saying “C is a poorly designed language from today’s perspective” which is a bit disingenuous consi

>Saying “C is a poorly designed language” usually amounts to saying “C is a poorly designed language from today’s perspective” which is a bit disingenuous considering we wouldn’t even know about these problems without C. I mean okay, but whether or not we have historical perspective doesn't change the fact that as we now understand it, C is poorly designed. If it's poorly designed, then it's poorly designed and we should stop using it. There was a time when we "lacked historical perspective" and we built the De Havilland Comet, too. People died. Turns out that square windows cause stress concentrations so we started using better techniques. Nobody was arguing "yeah but for simple CLIs and small programs that don't do anything drastic, square windows are fine". Square windows suck so we make rounded corners now. C sucks, we should use something that sucks less.