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C# 2.0 Spec Released

Posted by michael on from the most-anticipated-new-language-of-the-week dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft released the design specifications document for C# 2.0 (codenamed 'Whidbey') to be released early next year. New features of the language include generics similar to those found in Eiffel and Ada, anonymous methods similar to lambda functions in Lisp, iterators, and partial types."

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  1. Re:Does adding every ingredient make it better? by Tom7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, but consider the competition. C++ is insanely complicated and broken, and is popular. Perl is insanely broken and complicated, and it is popular.

    Anyway, anonymous higher order functions and generics are two really glaring deficiencies in Java, C#, and many other modern OO languages, so adding them is a step in the right direction. It's not as if these are minor, useless features.

    > Is this their plan to "lock in" universities to teaching microsoft programing to all levels, because it will take
    > 4 years of classes just to cover it all?

    That's crazy. Universities don't teach programming languages except as tools to teach more important concepts.