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do you have any references for problems these alleged expert programmers had when trying to write C?

Here’s one from memory: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/07/confession-of-cc-progra...

he didn’t give any actual reason, just threw around some credentials.

I misunderstood your question. I don't know of the specific reasons; presumably they're the same reasons that intermediate C programmers can't reliably write secure C.

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