I think that such a developer would be equally as likely to forget to free() memory or overflow a buffer. I assume that the reasoning is that people who don't k

I think that such a developer would be equally as likely to forget to free() memory or overflow a buffer. I assume that the reasoning is that people who don't know C well enough or are too forgetful shouldn't be working on the Plan9 codebase anyway, so why optimize for such a bad case when there are definite costs to doing so (as I mentioned before)?