That’s a statement that comes up a lot. And while it is technically true, it really isn’t in practice. We can and do design systems to expose less of their surf

That’s a statement that comes up a lot. And while it is technically true, it really isn’t in practice. We can and do design systems to expose less of their surfaces that represent open knifes and more of the safe handle side. It is near universally true, that the easier to access way is the one that will be taken more often. To be fair to C, it was designed long before we as a society really appreciated that. So there is a lot of old code whose authors just couldn’t know better. And some (probably few) will even have managed to write readable code! But that doesn’t mean that languages can’t encourage good behavior and discourage bad. (I’m not even sure where I come down wrt Rust here) And that will (somewhat reliably) end in better or worse code. Not necessarily in a reliable way. But it’s e.g. really hard to write python code where local control flow isn’t reasonably obvious (since scoping is enforced by white space). Not impossible of course