Single data points never tell you a tremendous amount. People can and do write good software in languages that are poorly suited to the task all the time. No on

Single data points never tell you a tremendous amount. People can and do write good software in languages that are poorly suited to the task all the time. No one is saying you can't do it; just that it makes your life significantly harder than it otherwise needs to be. The success of C++ provides a wealth of evidence that C isn't really up to the task -- everyone seems to hate it for its complexity, but very few people are writing web browsers in C89 these days.