The problem with comments like these is that guessing what "better language" a commentator has in mind is always an exercise left up to the reader. But that tends to be by design—it's great for potshots and punditry, because it means not having make a concrete commitment to anything that might similarly be torn apart in the replies, especially over double standards—like if the "better language" alluded to is C (and it generally is)—the language with a standard library that "steers" you towards quadratic string operations because the default/natural way to refer to a string's length is O(n).