Is the joke that Theo said virtually the exact same thing in the linked thread?

Again, quoting Theo directly...

> However there is a rampant fiction that if you supply a new safer method everyone will use it. For gods sake, the simplest of concepts like the stack protector took nearly 10 years for adoption, let people should switch languages? DELUSION.

Anyways, I think you've clearly misunderstood my point.