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        "Father of C#" speaks out

        lieberman | Date: Jul 15, 2005 | Comments: 1



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        Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg, father of the C# programming language, addresses a number of programming issues in an interview at Microsoft Watch. He discusses such issues as the implications of the increasingly tight integration of tools and languages, and "the big impedance mismatch...


        between programming languages... and the database world."

        Anders Hejlsberg is one of Microsoft's handful of distinguished engineers. He is known for having developed the Borland Turbo Pascal compiler and for having been chief architect of Borland's Delphi technology. Hejlsberg left Borland, where he last served as chief engineer, to join Microsoft in 1996. Since joining Microsoft, Hejlsberg's greatest claim to fame has been fathering the C# programming language. Originally code-named "Cool," C# was designed to be Microsoft's Java killer.

        Hejlsberg chatted in June with Microsoft Watch editor Mary Jo Foley and eWEEK.com senior editor Darryl K. Taft at the recent Microsoft Tech Ed conference in Orlando about the past, present and future of the C# programming language -- among other programming-language-related topics.

        Read the complete interview at Microsoft Watch:


        The Father of C# on the Past, Present and Future of Programming




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