Good and Bad Ideas in C#

Jim Mischel recently re-read Nicklaus Wirth's 2005 essay, Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass, and got to thinking a bit about some of the things he said about programming languages in general. "And, whereas I agree with many of his sentiments, I can't fully agree with him in some particulars when it comes to programming language features, especially in the context of C#," Mischel writes.