>language for "consenting adults". It doesn't try to prevent you from doing awful things so you can do great things. People who can't program well are given plenty of rope to hang themselves.

This is exactly what I remember being said about C (which I agree with) and often given as a reason why higher level languages like Python or Java have so many protections against things C/C++ allowed (memory management being the biggest one of course). Very funny, and I assume not coincidental, to read this about Python in the modern programming landscape.