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Bill Joy's Takes on C#

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-is-joined dept.

f00zbll writes: "Cnet is running an article by Bill Joy on security and how it relates to C# and Microsoft at large. BJ quotes verbatim: 'C# provides the ability to write unsafe code. In unsafe code it is possible to declare and operate on pointers, to perform conversions between pointers and integral types, to take the address of variables, and so forth.'"

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  1. The Furor about C# by Astral+Jung · · Score: 4, Funny

    I still don't understand what's so evil about C#. If you don't want to use it, you don't have to. But personally, I find that not using C# leaves a sizable gap in several different keys, meaning a lot of stuff comes out just sounding wrong.

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  2. Re:Music lesson... by Ieshan · · Score: 4, Funny

    And actually, that stands for C-Sharp, not C-Flat at all. You could call it D-Flat, but that'd be like a boob-job gone wrong instead of a programming language.

  3. The ultimate secure language by mrroot · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's been alot of controversy lately over security holes in programming languages. There is one language that has stood the test of time and proven to be the most secure language of all, with a record zero (0) reported security holes.

    Here is the link if you want to learn more.

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