C is a portable, readable assembler abstraction in a lot of ways, yes. I'm not seeing what's wrong with that. Was that supposed to be an insult?
>> I guess the design goal was to make security exploits as easy as taking caddies from children.
Do children often have caddies? I've never noticed a child with a caddy. Golfers perhaps.
I'm still not sure why you think type safety is the be-all and end-all of everything. You can have memory violations and leaks just as easily in type-safe environments as any other. There are lots of ways to f*ck up in C, but the flexibility turns out to be useful as well, when used appropriately.
