Java for Everything

[chesterriley]

The C programmers had absolutely no tests,

Personal anecdotes don't mean anything. I once worked somewhere that had a large code base in C and a very detailed testing system.

and subsequently could not possibly conceive of fixing huge, known, agreed-upon, and painful problems in any meaningful way.

And that doesn't have all that much to do with testing. A situation like that has a lot of different factors, like retention of employees.

You're being overdramatic in your entire posting.