[telkanuru]

Your inability to detect problems is in all likelyhood related to the self rather than the language. Personally, if I can't solve a C/C++ bug within 5-10 minutes, I ask someone who also knows it to look over the language, because they find things I miss. And good compilers do make a good deal of difference. Personally, I like C++ because I like object-oriented language, but C is better than visual whatever they were using before. You can do so much more with so much less. Plus, knowing it has broader practical applications.