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Because that is the whole point.

If C is still present in the stack, the typical C exploits are possible, which were how many Oracle JVM exploits came to be, for example.

Reducing C presence to the same as Assembly, will just make everything safer in our systems.

Not that it will ever happen in UNIX systems, given how C came to life.



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