C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Kagamin]

On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 21:49:12 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
wrote:
> https://sqlite.org/whyc.html
>
> Personally I think D team should try to convince some well 
> known project to switch from C to D. Not many projects are 
> written in C these days though ... but SQLite is amongst the 
> few.

>The C language is old and boring. It is a well-known and 
>well-understood language.

If C is so well-understood, why we have all these buffer 
overflows?