How about Ocaml or Rust? They are both safer than C and are almost as fast. I don't think we'd reinvent C on modern machines, which have millions of times more

How about Ocaml or Rust? They are both safer than C and are almost as fast. I don't think we'd reinvent C on modern machines, which have millions of times more memory than K&R had to work with on their PDP-7.