This is, of course, an old hoax. But is it even true that in the 1980s or early 90s, competent C programmers were plentiful? After all, C is infamous for making

This is, of course, an old hoax. But is it even true that in the 1980s or early 90s, competent C programmers were plentiful? After all, C is infamous for making buffer overruns, memory leaks, and other memory management bugs all too easy.