I still use Lazarus/Pascal, not as clumsy or random as pointer math, an elegant language, for a more civilized age.

Wirth was wise to do everything possible to discourage pointer use, and make it obvious. Hejlsberg and company gave Pascal a worthy library and IDE. Then the language florished under the Turbo Pascal, and later Delphi banner.

But then Hejlsberg turned to the dark side, and joined with the MicroSith. They bought forth Sith.NET, Sith# and all other manner of evil.