Re:Cripes, it's time to ban C (Score 1)

Yup, I totally agree with you. There must be a better way. I seriously believe that when it comes to application development, there should be little need to deal with memory and pointers. This leads to all the problems that can cause a memory leak or core dump. Application programmers should be dealing generally with just abstract data. I recommend Lisp myself.

I believe that the OS itself should really deal with automatic memory management and abstraction of data. Actually, at least one other programmer and I are in the process of designing an open source OS which does just this (written in Common Lisp, of course).