Safety Language?

“The popular safety languages are C++, Java, C#, VB and Delphi.” - Kevin Barnes I disagree with one part of that: VB is not a safety language. Rather, I would say “Visual Basic is a danger language.” It has the verbosity and cumbersomeness of a safety language, but does not give the one important benefit of a safety language: safety. It’s just plain dangerous. Hello Variant–can we say “not type-safe?” By definition, a safety language should enforce type safety, which VB does not do. To be fair, I have not used VB.Net, but who would when they can use C# (a true safety language)? Personally, I prefer freedom.

Posted on August 25th, 2005 at 10:10 pm | Python

3 Responses to “Safety Language?”

September 11th, 2005 at 4:10 pm - Zoe
Hey Daniel… Just thought I’d give you comment since you loooove them so much :) I have to say that your blog doesn’t really pertain to me but I had fun reading it anyway. I like when you are sarcastic! Alright, have a good one! Love, Zoe Dawn P.S.I used VB in my computer programming class…but just the very basic stuff. I probably don’t even remember it anymore!

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