[Nursie]

Yeesh.

When incompetent programmers go away perhaps. C in and of itself is not the issue. And neither is scaring people away from it with horror stories.

I've run into young engineers recently who thing that pretty much any 'C style' system call is necessarily dangerous, because OMG the developer has to remember to pass in the length of the buffer they're passing in as well as the buffer itself. No, you just have to not be a frickin' idiot.

[pjmlp]

Incompetent programmers are here to stay as they are cheaper to hire.

We need languages that are not designed to allow security exploits by accident, like Ada, Modula-2 or any other in the same school of thought.