Maybe I'm just Stockholm syndrome-d into the C programming language, but none of the examples here are terribly compelling to me - I love articles about C's weirdness, but I don't really think his before and after comparisons make a case for a replacement for C.
Yeah, just because you can grab from your refrigerator a piece of raw meat and put it in a cup of milk in 10 secs and it tastes bad doesn’t mean the refrigerator should be blamed because of this.