>There is no language which is going to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot. How many guns and how big are the guns that are pointed at my foot? Is

>There is no language which is going to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot. How many guns and how big are the guns that are pointed at my foot? Is it an ion cannon or an airsoft gun? Most can agree one can be a happy user of $XLANG, but there are gradations of advantage depending on what you're working on. Plenty of people out there that are happiest working in C, but I don't think many would say it's the safest or most productive language to work in. Also worth thinking about how easy it is to extract meaning from software just by reading it. Explicit datatypes, specifications, grammars, etc. can all help with that. Even better is tools that can make sure your program faithfully represents an implementation of those specifications and act as a denser mental encoding of code than code itself is capable of being.