Interview with Anders Hejlsberg
Sep. 6th, 2003 | 01:43 am
mood: 
good
Earlier this week, artima.com
published an interview with
Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of the C#
programming language. Hejlsberg, interviewed by
Bruce Eckel
and
Bill Venners,
talks about
the C# design process,
the trouble with
checked exceptions,
and his idea of simplexity.
C# is one programming language I've stayed away from--and for no particular reason. I had picked up the C# specification [PDF] in 2000, but never really got down to the canonical "hello world" program. Today in 2003, as I look back, I guess I haven't missed much.
Let's go back to August 2000 and revisit Hejlsberg's famous O'Reilly interview by Josh Osborn.
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Update after 5 minutes: Well, is it the hot topic, or what? They're discussing J2EE vs. .Net on Slashdot, again!