>C wasn't made to prevent the programmer to do various things. That doesn't make C an insecure language, that means the
>programmer needs to pick up a book on making secure applications in C.
Don't get me wrong, I am a very strong advocate of C, and I am completely against banning it. But as z3bra already said,
even if you would want to make secure applications in C, it wouldn't be that easy. Preventing the programmer from doing things he does not want to do (overwriting protected memory) is actually a good thing imho.