Comment by timbit42

I would disagree that C is going to be a 100 year programming language. I think the recent focus on safety is going to not only turn businesses away from using C but that they will active push C out of their code bases in the quest for safety. C was fine back before networking was everywhere. Today, it's a disaster waiting to happen in every C program. Sure, there are C programmers who claim they can write safe C code, but the numerous hacks prove they can't. Why wouldn't a programmer prefer a language that handles most of the safety for you, and is designed to allow for better optimization to boot?