[no_l0gic]

This has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the programmers and practices - some great write-ups:

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/analysis-of-openssl-free...

Who can resist Theo: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/211963

[mamcx]

"Nothing to do with the language"?

Seriously, apart from C, what other language cause almost any of their users to think: I must do my own malloc, or String type, or XXXX.

This kind of weird is typical of C.