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I started doing that in 1993 on MS-DOS already, thanks to C++ RAII, C felt outdated already on those days.

Arguably, 1993's C has survived better than 1993's C++.

Well in 33 years it has learnt nothing about memory safe programming, at least C++ provides the tooling for those that care, before even goverments decided to act upon it.

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