Hardware is hardware, but C is not. People need to stop pretending that it is.
Look at all his comments in this thread. He is just fishing for an argument/attention.
Re:Modern C [pdf]
by grabcocque on Monday November 28, 2016 @08:36AM
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Oh, I see it's not that there's such a thing as a bad tool, or that C is unsafe.
Simply most of us don't have your towering intellect to appreciate it. Got it.
Maybe I was too harsh, I apologize. But c is far less dangerous than a kitchen knife.
Tools are tools, some are used with a great amount of care: jackhammers, routers, compression hammers, chainsaws etc.
Heck: driving a vehicle is probably the single most dangerous activity we do on a daily basis.
It is what it is. It's not user friendly because hardware just isn't, low levels aren't, and it has to just perform.
> 'idiotically dangerous'
Well, I don't want to sound harsh, but nobody forces anybody to do systems programming if they perceive C as such. There is JavaScript, python and plethora of other safe and cozy languages, but: the low level has to be done.