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Anders Hejlsberg on C# 3.0

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the like-a-little-boy-on-christmas dept.

spongman writes "Channel9 has a video of Anders Hejlsberg demoing C# 3.0. The new language enhancements include implicitly typed locals, extension methods, strongly-typed lambda expressions, anonymous types, and LINQ - a builtin SQL-like syntax for data access. The spec, samples and a working compiler can be found on MSDN."

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  1. Re:The Microsoft Trap by dubl-u · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can't believe this got rated insightful.

    The real problem is that while your competitors were rewriting their products in Java, you were sticking with VB. And now you want to blame Microsoft for that.

    Having used VB on exactly one project, I must admit that writing a large app in it suggests masochistic tendencies. But I think it's fair to blame Microsoft for following Microsoft's advice.

    The fact that many vendors are basically untrustworthy does not mean that you shouldn't yell at vendors every time the shiv you. The vendors can learn from the pain, and your colleagues learn to fear the vendor when they hear you yelling.

    And .NET does not necessarily mean platform/vendor lock, either.

    You mean in the weak sense that some vendor could theoretically reimplement it someday? That was true for VB, too. Doesn't seem to be working out so well, does it?