Thanks. I hope you didn't take my first comment as an insult. What I meant by that is C is not just something you sit down with after skimming the specificatio

Thanks. I hope you didn't take my first comment as an insult. What I meant by that is C is not just something you sit down with after skimming the specification and "bang out." There are years of community "inherited knowledge" on how to write C so it doesn't result in disaster. The very need for these practices exemplifies the flaws in C as a language -- by the very nature of working around these vulnerabilities, you acknowledge that they are vulnerabilities. Thus, if one doesn't see C's issues then one is doomed to C's mistakes (this sentence is very strange when read out loud).