Fergus Henderson wrote (on 27-11-00 21:01 +1100):
That is twaddle. "Entrenched" C/C++ programmers will doubtless write bad code in any other language, just like Real Programmers and Fortran. The ability to declare a portion of the code as `unsafe' is a feature. It's like `unsafePerformIO' in Haskell! And also no worse than JNI in Java. Do you think that Haskell would be better without `unsafePerformIO'?
Without remarking on C#, I just wanted to point out that unsafePerformIO is not part of the Haskell language... [BTW, John and Olaf: the new haskell.org front page looks great! The logo is a big improvement...] -- Frank Atanassow, Information & Computing Sciences, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, PO Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands Tel +31 (030) 253-3261 Fax +31 (030) 251-379