This is inflammatory and vapid. OpenSSL just needs better code review and should follow the standards they are programming to. It's not the death knell for an entire programming language.
It's the attitude that was wrong, not the language. Stupid always finds a way. Back in the day, porting to different compilers and platforms was one way to find and quash bugs. Nowadays I guess you can just pitch a single OSS compiler and rely on it's implementation details and bugs. Drag your own chunks of libc around and presto, no porting headaches. That's such a stupid attitude.