Turns out that when you're implementing network applications, the set of things that could happen also depends on what the script kiddie on the other side of the globe feels like this morning.
Some would prefer less excitement than this.
C code should be more predictable and easier to reason about than using a macro assembler. To the extent it is not, the language has failed.
Given that it sits at the heart of the network stack, kernel and device drivers for every major operating system, is in many, many embedded devices in the World around us, and is responsible for making decent chunk of the global economy keep moving, that’s quite a failure case.
Perhaps some professional programmers know how to write secure software in a language with undefined behaviour. Maybe we should think about that more rather than just writing off an obviously huge success as a failure?
Some would prefer less excitement than this.
C code should be more predictable and easier to reason about than using a macro assembler. To the extent it is not, the language has failed.