Well, they are human after all.

Overall, I feel that C# team has definitely achieved their goal of being a 'Pit of Success'. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/08/falling-into-the-pi...

E.g. Order of evaluation is strictly defined as left to right in C#.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2008/05/23/prece...

Disallowing use of uninitialized local variable.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7797424/why-arent-unassig...

C# warns you if you do

if (i = 1) //notice the '=' instead of '==' {

}

warning CS0665: Assignment in conditional expression is always constant; did you mean to use == instead of = ?

Obviously, they failed in the case of 'foreach' but I feel great knowing that they will be fixing it in the next release.

It's lovely how you confirm the common prejudice:

1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.[2]"

(from http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...)

In fairness, they stumbled into it more than they deliberately perpetrated the error. In the beginning, when the rules for foreach loops were laid out, C# didn't have closures so it didn't really make a difference.