If you read the history of C, written by Ritchie, he says that Johnson created it, because it was already clear in 1979 that not everyone was able to write correct C code.<p>And here we are with millions of dollars&#x2F;euros&#x2F;yans&#x2F;... spent in all forms of analyzers, theorem provers, hardware extensions (MPX, cheri) to workaround language flaws.