On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]>wrote:
> I certainly think such a lib can be safe but most importantly most > programmers never touch this and worst case if its horrid or unsafe this > is no big deal... > >From a pragmatic perspective I agree, but I still think that it is worth pushing to determine where the boundaries of safety should lie. > And as you stated with cstring will also need a mutable string builder to > build strings in .NET this is critical for quite a few cases. > Yes. With the caveat that the current StringBuilder notion is horribly inefficient and needs to be re-thought. > After using .NET for 10 years the libs have a few holes (mainly round > win32) but the lib subtlety does a great job at making bad programmers > adequate or even good ( I see less bugs and issues than say C++ with > experienced guys) . Considering most guys are 9-5 and have little interest > outside their job this is a good thing. > Yes. The art of designing for real programmers is under-appreciated. shap
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