What's C's biggest mistake?

[Max Samukha]

On 25.12.2009 2:31, Walter Bright wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ai9uc/whats_cs_biggest_mistake/

>
> My opinions might still be wrong, of course. I have another blog post
> I'm working on that lists several design mistakes in D <g>. I hope
> you'll find it enjoyable!

That would be helpful. Not knowing that a feature is actually a design 
mistake may lead to painful revelations in the future. Also, I suggest 
mentioning, which design mistakes are going to be fixed and which are 
considered unfixable without major (and unlikely) language redesign.

>
> Andrei and I were just talking about programming language books, and how
> we both thought it was disingenuous that some of them never admit to any
> flaws in the language. We hope we don't fall into that trap.