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You can't fix what is fundamentally broken.

In the same idea of "Any sufficiently complicated C program contains an ad hoc, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." let's paraphrase

Any sufficiently safe C program contains an ad-hoc (etc.) implementation of the infrastructure needed to make it safe:

- custom string implementation

- custom object/memory management

- custom memory slices and other data structures

Not forgetting the compiler tricks added to try and catch when the program does something stupid



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