You could believe C is an absolutely fantastic systems-programming language, but believe that in day to day applications programming, it is a poor choice. Actua

You could believe C is an absolutely fantastic systems-programming language, but believe that in day to day applications programming, it is a poor choice. Actually, I think that belief is fairly common. I don't think it would be going too far in the direction of looking for a charitable interpretation of the author's statements to consider this possibility.