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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The language is good, but the runtime won't work for low-level Windows components for a couple of reasons (many improvements were made too late in the game for inclusion into Vista). Singularity uses a totally different runtime system that doesn't do any jitting and requires that the entire system be compiled with a single compiler. That's not exactly in line with the Windows way of doing things.
And some Windows apps are written in .NET. Media Center is a big standout that ships in the box for many editions of Vista. It's not exactly a small or crappy app.
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2008-04-21
but MS does consider it being good for system-level programming (for instance Singularity Project).