The article points out great benefits of using C in safety critical systems. However, as an embedded dev for 5 years... I'd say the advantage is the same as the

The article points out great benefits of using C in safety critical systems. However, as an embedded dev for 5 years... I'd say the advantage is the same as the disadvantage. Nitty gritty bit level memory manipulation and management can be excellent. However, C may also take your measure and find you wanting. In this case the resulting code will be a disaster. I've written both disastrous code and then grew and wrote some great code in C.