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How C# Was Made

Posted by timothy on from the magic-dust dept.

prostoalex writes "Bruce Eckel (from the Thinking in C++/Java/Patterns/Enterprise Java fame) and Bill Venners have interviewed programming legend Anders Hejlsberg. After 13 years in Borland and joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg now leads the development of C# language and talks about the development process, reasons some things exist in C# and some not, as well as future directions."

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  1. Re:How and Why C# Was Made by atlasheavy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Microsoft starts trying to tell people that "OO is soo... yeasterday. You want Indigo."

    You're referring to Don Box, specifically, right? I don't think it's so much that Don is pooh-pooh'ing OOP in general, it's that he feels that a service-oriented architecture is better suited to the kind of problems we face today than DCOM or CORBA. His point is that trying to use an OOP metaphor for enormous, architecturally sound remote object invocation/data transfer systems is a terribly complex task.

    Also, keep in mind that Don wrote *the* book on Microsoft's COM technology; OOP has its place, but CORBA and DCOM are not really the place.

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    iRooster, the Mac OS X a
  2. Wake up and smell the marketing bullshit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    But co-optinging C++ was not made as a business decision to lock in Sun customers, it was made as part of Sun's vision of "The Net is the Computer" (or whatever they called it).

    For fucks sake, man! Wake up and smell the marketing bullshit. The most innovative impressive thing about Java was that it was successfully marketed as basically the second coming (more tangibly as the solution to 10 different huge problems), all while just being another platform. Get it? They created their own platform without hardware leverage, OS leverage, app leverage, etc. It's bootstrapping by marketing.

  3. Re:Why do big companies want pseudo-compiled langs by prockcore · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) Pseudo-compiled languages are easily decompiled.

    Um, compiled languages are easily decompiled as well.
    http://hte.sf.net is a badass hexeditor/disassembler.

    Case in point, I walked through the assembly of iTunes to figure out the AES key that iTunes uses for iTMS. And iTunes was written in C++.