> I'm not really buying that C++ is really all that commonly safe when we have states like these[3]:
It's not. At this point, I cannot in good faith say that he is not lying, either to us or himself.
It's not. At this point, I cannot in good faith say that he is not lying, either to us or himself.
Although that's not much of a defense when he was the one who invented the wrong ways to use it.