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C# In-Depth

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the does-he-mention-that-it's-evil dept.

Bergkamp10 from ComputerWorld writes "Microsoft's leader of C# development, writer of the Turbo Pascal system, and lead architect on the Delphi language, Anders Hejlsberg, reveals all there is to know on the history, inspiration, uses and future direction of one of computer programming's most widely used languages — C#. Hejlsberg also offers some insight into the upcoming version of C# (C#4) and the new language F#, as well as what lies ahead in the world of functional programming."

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  1. The Printer Friendly version ... by neonprimetime · · Score: 5, Informative

    I beg you to use this link instead of flipping thru all 8 pages

  2. Re:Foctothorpe FTW by netpixie · · Score: 5, Informative

    That'll be because music uses sharps (i.e. unicode symbol 266F) rather than octothorpes (unicode 0023)

    E followed by unicode 266F is indeed E sharp
    E followed by unicode 0023 is E-octothorpe.

  3. Re:a bunch of questions by nschubach · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like it's down to #8 actually:

    http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

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  4. Re:a bunch of questions by Nursie · · Score: 5, Informative

    8th most widely used.

    After Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, Python, Perl and PHP. It just beats out javascript, below that you get into the obscure languages.

  5. C# Usage by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this: http://www.langpop.com/ , C# is only the 9th most popular language, only competing with scripting languages.

    It comes nowhere close to the more popular programming languages in terms of usage.

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