I've long agreed with her assessment that the biggest mistake the software industry made was to adopt C over safe languages like Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon and Ad

I've long agreed with her assessment that the biggest mistake the software industry made was to adopt C over safe languages like Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon and Ada. It has held back the software industry for over 40 years. It's good to see Rust come along but it still isn't as safe as Ada, and especially as Ada SPARK.