Thanks for the link, and here's one for you: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/condescension http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/condescension I

Thanks for the link, and here's one for you: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/condescension http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/condescension I neither believe nor wrote that if we can't start with a blank slate we might as well give up. Since I specialize in working with legacy code that's actually pretty much the opposite of what I do. What I meant by "I won't hold my breath" is that C has an enormous lead in maturity, programmers, and installed software base. Displacing it because a writer at TechCrunch thinks C sucks and Rust is better is a different kind of fallacy. I'd be happy to see a safer language that didn't sacrifice expressive power, performance, and memory footprint. Many, many candidates have been floated since C made its debut, so either they have all been found wanting, or the obstacles to moving beyond C are bigger than just inventing a safer language. That was my point.