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>FWIW, I originally made the observation in grad school when our department was fairly evenly divided between those working in C and those (like me) working in Pascal. I agree that any language can be abused (and I've seen plenty of truly horrible Fox code over the years). I do think that some languages are easier to abuse than others, and that C is in that class.
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I think the observations regarding C are partly due to it being a mid-level language. The learning curve is arguably steeper than other languages.

I went through almost 2 years of self-study on C and did a large amount of reading. So by the time I did anything for money I already knew much of what constituted a huge no-no.