What's C's biggest mistake?

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
>> On seeing this title I was going to interject "using pointers to
>> represent arrays!" but it seems you beat me to it.  This is
>> definitely the biggest problem with C.
>> 
> Also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014533
> 
> I find the responses to be very curious, particularly the "not in the
> spirit of C" ones. Then there are the ones who deny that this even is
> an actual problem in C code.
> 
> It reminds me of why I decided to work on D rather than keep pushing
> on those ropes.
> 

C is Latin, about 300 years ago: A dead language that no one uses but everyone 
knows.