The interesting bit is that it was already happening on the PC world, with C only being used for OS APIs on Windows and OS/2, but most people were actually using C++ (OWL, VCL, MFC), Turbo Pascal for Windows followed by Delphi, VB, Eiffel, Ada, Oberon, Component Pascal...

Then the UNIX FOSS, written mostly in C took over, and set us almost 20 years back in security and safety.