C# 2.0 is just out and Microsoft is already working hard on the next version of C#, version 3.0. In this post, Niek describes a few of the new language features that will be introduced in this version. Please note that the resulting binaries will be backwards compatible with .NET 2.0, so C# 3.0 is only new on the compiler side.
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Basically, they managed to copy Boo ( http://boo.codehaus.org/ ) type inferencing (...) They also copied property initializers from boo.
Well, I think it's a good thing they copy useful features from other languages 
. The 'botching' doesn't seem to be too grave.
I think these features were just 'in the air': some of the stuff reminds me of the languages Nice and Nemerle.
Member since:2005-07-06
Well, I think it's a good thing they copy useful features from other languages .
What other languages would you be talking about? Any languages designed for .Net only differ by their syntax.
If you can make some cosmetic changes to C# and get features already built into Boo and Nemerle then .Net is simply not a multi-language environment, as I've said many times before. .Net language neutrality is crap.
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2005-09-11
Basically, they managed to copy Boo ( http://boo.codehaus.org/ ) type inferencing and totally botch it by requiring a var keyword before.
They also copied property initializers from boo. we've had that from the start. Though I admit their syntax is better. I made a few changes in my copy of the boo parser to make it look like that.
We've also got extension methods, though the syntax is under revision.
LINQ looks cool, but eh.