Eh, I've always seen this as the counterpart of the old meme that there are no bad languages, only bad programmers.
He's not going to get many C programmers to adopt his language if he gets on stage and announces C is a crap language and anyone who thinks their code doesn't have memory bugs just hasn't found them yet. Is this asshole saying I'm bad at my job?
On the other hand, if he says that of course you, dear reader, have never coded a bug in your life - it's other programmers who do that, and this new language will help you collaborate with those poor unfortunates? That's an easier pill to swallow.
He's not going to get many C programmers to adopt his language if he gets on stage and announces C is a crap language and anyone who thinks their code doesn't have memory bugs just hasn't found them yet. Is this asshole saying I'm bad at my job?
On the other hand, if he says that of course you, dear reader, have never coded a bug in your life - it's other programmers who do that, and this new language will help you collaborate with those poor unfortunates? That's an easier pill to swallow.