Linked by David Adams on Wed 1st Oct 2008 14:32 UTC
Microsoft's leader of C# development, writer of the Turbo Pascal system, and lead architect on the Delphi language, Anders Hejlsberg, reveals all there is to know on the history, inspiration, uses and future direction of one of computer programming's most widely used languages - C#. Hejlsberg also offers some insight into the upcoming version of C# (C#4) and the new language F#, as well as what lies ahead in the world of functional programming.
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And yet..in all that time very little is actually using it in the Windows OS. Makes you go hmmmm.
C# is not a systems programming language, it is mainly a business programming language. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to program core parts of Windows in C#.
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C# is not a systems programming language, it is mainly a business programming language. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to program core parts of Windows in C#.