C programs are so damn reliable I spent last three weeks mostly trying to debug others' code (from multiple software projects - I was lucky enough they decided

C programs are so damn reliable I spent last three weeks mostly trying to debug others' code (from multiple software projects - I was lucky enough they decided they'd all start hitting obscure bugs at approximately same time) and waiting for it to crash again. Just imagine my feelings when a critical server that ran just fine for 3 years gets a bit more load and starts getting assertion failures. That was a known and already fixed bug, but after version bump to next stable those had changed to SIGSEGVs - and it's not trivial NULL pointer dereferencing but a weird concurrency issue. C has neither [relatively] strong guarantees of OCaml and Haskell (so I could be at least sure there're no trivial bugs with that weird macros doing crazy pointer juggling), nor dynamic flexibility of Python and Erlang (so I could hack working runtime live, letting it fail and hot-swapping code at will).