I've got 40 years C experience, mostly with device drivers and OS internals (helped port Linux to the SH-4 back in 2000). I retired a few years back (thank you Qualcomm), and learned Java to scratch ...

Before 1995, software was very often built with C and C++. These are not idiot-proof programming languages. It’s possible—easy even—to really muck things up at very low levels within a computer, such ...