What's C's biggest mistake?

[retard]

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:36:36 +0000, BCS wrote:

> 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.

If you ask this question from e.g. the linux kernel devs, they always 
answer C. It's not a surprise that projects like GIT are (mostly) written 
in C. Most traditional *nix software is written in C and so are libraries 
like GTK+. C just works :)