Agreed. I was pointing out that my interpretation of the email was a hypothetical tone, instead of a factual tone. As far as I'm concerned C isn't good enough, but I generally keep my mouth shut about it because I can't offer anything constructive to the discussion: I don't know what a "good C" would look like.
Which is precisely the reason C is still used.
Until we have a language that produces at least as good results as C and is safer we're not going to see any change in this area.