I bow to my learned coleagues opinion your honour.
I retract the allegation on Ariane 5.

But the charge agaist 'C' still stands.....

Convince me that the language doesn't possess very major weaknesses in typing and pointer handling then ?

And any language in which
for(;P("n").R-;P("|"))for(e=3DC;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

Compiles cleanly should be banned.

Steve