Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo

saforrest writes "Say goodbye to independent academia. In a presentation by Microsoft on Wednesday at the University of Waterloo, a new joint initiative was announced which involves the addition of a mandatory course on C# for all electrical and computer engineers. 'Completion of this course will be mandatory for students entering the E&CE program.'" Microsoft's press release is available.

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Re:Nooooooo!

[manobes]

A big shout out from a fellow UW physics grad

What year were you there?

Re:At least C# is (probably) useful

[Zeinfeld]

And besides, usually you don't need that kind of functionnality, unless you're doing academic research on such languages, and then you'd probably use Scheme or Smalltalk anyway...

And Waterloo would be what type of institution?

The .NET framework makes very extensive use of reflection with arbitrary meta-data tagged to the data structures. This is how all the .NET code for XML serialization and parsing is done.

Basically you call an instance of the Serializer, pass it the type of the data structure you want to serialize and poof! out comes a delegate routine that will serialize and parse that data structure.

Re:Buying mandatory classes?

[marko123]

I so wish people would learn to spell precedent.
Quit bitching about corporatisation (Australian spelling, and correct) and learn to spell. HAND