Yes, we all know you can get safer languages than C. But that isn’t what we are discussing here. Also 640KB is 2 orders of magnitude greater than the ROM size

Yes, we all know you can get safer languages than C. But that isn’t what we are discussing here. Also 640KB is 2 orders of magnitude greater than the ROM size for BASIC on those old 8bit micros, which is the benchmark we’re supposedly working to.