What's C's biggest mistake?

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> C is Latin, about 300 years ago: A dead language that no one uses but
>> everyone knows.
>> 
> C is still in wide use.
> 

OK I over stated. OTOH, Latin was in wide use (for some professions) 300 
years ago.

I guess my point is that aside from VERY resource limited systems, almost 
no one will have C as their first choice. Even with those limited systems 
I'd bet that most people would rather be working in something else if they 
could. That said, there are many places where it ends up being the lingua 
franca.