[eli_gottlieb]

>Is C "fundamentally broken" too?

C was designed and released in, IIRC, 1972. If someone designed and released C in the year 2012 as a new, state-of-the-art systems programming language, I would tear their guts out for releasing something so fundamentally broken, unsafe, obsolete and simplistic!

>people seem to get a lot of work done.

Quite to the contrary, the entire shift to virtual machines and scripting languages happened because people didn't like using C and C++ for application domains where their advantages don't count.