Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Thursday, 29 December 2022 at 20:38:23 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> I don't agree with that assessment at all. Having a seg fault 
> when your program enters an unanticipated, invalid state is a 
> *good* thing. The *actual* billion dollar mistake(s) in C are:

The alternative is the language could have prevent this state 
from being unanticipated at all, e.g. nullable vs not null types.