Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Anders Hejlsberg Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Anders Hejlsberg http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/anders+hejlsberg Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/anders+hejlsberg en Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:11 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:11 GMT Rev9 17 1 25 Developers you love, and why they love developing To kick off Build 2012, we put together a video featuring developers who have helped move the industry forward.  We asked them to share why they love what they do. Hear what they have to say in this video, shown on day one at Build. Participants included:

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Build-Developer-Video To kick off Build 2012, we put together a video featuring developers who have helped move the industry forward.  We asked them to share why they love what they do. Hear what they have to say in this video, shown on day one at Build. Participants included: Anders Hejlsberg: Technical Fellow, Developer Divisions, Microsoft Anil Dash: CEO & Co-founder, ThinkUp Ben Huh: CEO and Founder, The Cheezburger Network Bill Gates: Co-founder, Microsoft Jeff Atwood: Co-founder, Stack Exchange Larry Osterman: Principal Software Design Engineer Windows Runtime Experience Team, Microsoft LaSean Smith: Sr. Engagement Manager, Deloitte Digital  Matt Mullenweg: Co-founder, WordPress Michah Baldwin: CEO, Graphicaly Nancy Phan: Director of Mobile Product Management, StumbleUpon Nolan Bushnell: Founder, Atari, Inc. Tim O'Reilly: CEO and Founder, O'Reilly Media Tod Semple: Developer, Plants vs. Zombies Tracey Trewin: Partner Director, Developer Division, Microsoft Sebastian Thrun: CEO, Udacity   http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Build-Developer-Video Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:30:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Build-Developer-Video Laura Foy Laura Foy 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Build-Developer-Video/RSS Anders Hejlsberg Bill Gates jeff atwood Larry Osterman Tracey Trewin Wordpress Build Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, is designed to make it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host. It was announced recently while Anders Hejlsberg and other key members of the TypeScript team were attending and speaking at the goto conference (an excellent cross-platform developer event!). Needless to say, Channel 9 was there Smiley

Google's V8 and Dart chief architect Lars Bak also happened to be at the event (he's currently leading the Dart team full time). Anders and Lars join us to talk candidly about TypeScript, JavaScript and Dart. Huge thanks to Anders and Lars for this excellent conversation.

Tune in. Enjoy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Lars-Bak-TypeScript-JavaScript-and-Dart TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, is designed to make it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host. It was announced recently while Anders Hejlsberg and other key members of the TypeScript team were attending and speaking at the goto conference (an excellent cross-platform developer event!). Needless to say, Channel 9 was there Google's V8 and Dart chief architect Lars Bak also happened to be at the event (he's currently leading the Dart team full time). Anders and Lars join us to talk candidly about TypeScript, JavaScript and Dart. Huge thanks to Anders and Lars for this excellent conversation. Tune in. Enjoy. 2593 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Lars-Bak-TypeScript-JavaScript-and-Dart Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:10:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Lars-Bak-TypeScript-JavaScript-and-Dart Charles Charles 52 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Lars-Bak-TypeScript-JavaScript-and-Dart/RSS Anders Hejlsberg JavaScript Lars Bak Web Programming Dart _techmeme TypeScript GOTO Aarhus 2012 Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban: Inside TypeScript Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a casual chat about - what else - TypeScript. Why did they do it? What's the backstory? How is TS related to Dart and does it really aim to solve the same problems? What's wrong with JS, anyway? Does TS extend JS or is it just a design time tool that adds semantic structure where there is none? What about ECMAScript 6 - won't that release of JS have modules and classes? Is Anders still working on C#? TypeScript and Windows Store HTML5 apps.

As usual, this is a conversation and as such just happened as it did. Tune in.

If you haven't already, you should watch Anders' solo presentation before watching this.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Steve-Lucco-and-Luke-Hoban-Inside-TypeScript Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a casual chat about - what else - TypeScript. Why did they do it? What's the backstory? How is TS related to Dart and does it really aim to solve the same problems? What's wrong with JS, anyway? Does TS extend JS or is it just a design time tool that adds semantic structure where there is none? What about ECMAScript 6 - won't that release of JS have modules and classes? Is Anders still working on C#? TypeScript and Windows Store HTML5 apps. As usual, this is a conversation and as such just happened as it did. Tune in.If you haven't already, you should watch Anders' solo presentation before watching this. 2290 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Steve-Lucco-and-Luke-Hoban-Inside-TypeScript Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:22:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Steve-Lucco-and-Luke-Hoban-Inside-TypeScript Charles Charles 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Steve-Lucco-and-Luke-Hoban-Inside-TypeScript/rss Anders Hejlsberg JavaScript Programming Languages _techmeme TypeScript Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript TypeScript is a programming language that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host.  Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg explains how TypeScript, which is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, can dramatically improve your productivity by enabling rich tooling experiences, all while maintaining your existing code and continuing to use the same JavaScript libraries you already love.

The TypeScript language specification is available under Open Web Foundation and the compiler implementation is available as Open Source.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript TypeScript is a programming language that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host.  Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg explains how TypeScript, which is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, can dramatically improve your productivity by enabling rich tooling experiences, all while maintaining your existing code and continuing to use the same JavaScript libraries you already love. The TypeScript language specification is available under Open Web Foundation and the compiler implementation is available as Open Source. 3215 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:45:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript Charles Charles 159 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript/rss Anders Hejlsberg JavaScript Programming Languages _techmeme TypeScript The Roslyn Project - Meet the Design Team What is Roslyn?

Traditionally, compilers are black boxes – source code goes in one end and object files or assemblies come out the other end. The Roslyn project changes that model by opening up the Visual Basic and C# compilers as APIs. These APIs allow tools and end-users to share in the wealth of information the compilers have about code.

The Roslyn CTP previews the "next generation of language object models for code generation, analysis, and refactoring, and the upcoming support for scripting and interactive use of VB and C#."

Here, we meet the Roslyn Project design team (and the authors of the The Roslyn Project technical paper), Anders Hejlsberg, Karen Ng, Matt Warren, and Peter Golde. We discuss why Roslyn matters, how it works (briefly - we'll go deeper in the future), what it affords, and what it doesn't enable. This is a very interesting project and Roslyn promises to make Visual Studio code refactoring tools easier to build and potentially more powerful than they are today, but at a deeper level—Roslyn provides programmable access to a world class compiler infrastructure - language parser, semantic analyzer,etc - to managed developers (C#/VB).

It's an open question as to what you may actually end up doing with Roslyn if you are not, say, a visual tools developer, but that's the point of this random interlude (aka a Charles interview...though we do talk extensively about what Roslyn can be used for). With Roslyn, you have a lot of power and information at your disposal. How are you going to use it? What will you build?

Download the CTP, play around with Roslyn and provide feedback to the team. They want to hear from you!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/The-Roslyn-Project-Meet-the-Design-Team What is Roslyn? Traditionally, compilers are black boxes – source code goes in one end and object files or assemblies come out the other end. The Roslyn project changes that model by opening up the Visual Basic and C# compilers as APIs. These APIs allow tools and end-users to share in the wealth of information the compilers have about code. The Roslyn CTP previews the "next generation of language object models for code generation, analysis, and refactoring, and the upcoming support for scripting and interactive use of VB and C#." Here, we meet the Roslyn Project design team (and the authors of the The Roslyn Project technical paper), Anders Hejlsberg, Karen Ng, Matt Warren, and Peter Golde. We discuss why Roslyn matters, how it works (briefly - we'll go deeper in the future), what it affords, and what it doesn't enable. This is a very interesting project and Roslyn promises to make Visual Studio code refactoring tools easier to build and potentially more powerful than they are today, but at a deeper level—Roslyn provides programmable access to a world class compiler infrastructure - language parser, semantic analyzer,etc - to managed developers (C#/VB). It's an open question as to what you may actually end up doing with Roslyn if you are not, say, a visual tools developer, but that's the point of this random interlude (aka a Charles interview...though we do talk extensively about what Roslyn can be used for). With Roslyn, you have a lot of power and information at your disposal. How are you going to use it? What will you build? Download the CTP, play around with Roslyn and provide feedback to the team. They want to hear from you! 2023 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/The-Roslyn-Project-Meet-the-Design-Team Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:05:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/The-Roslyn-Project-Meet-the-Design-Team Charles Charles 31 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/The-Roslyn-Project-Meet-the-Design-Team/RSS .NET .NET Framework Anders Hejlsberg C# Compilers Programming VB.NET _techmeme Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers Anders wanted to hear from you to get a sense of what's on your mind with respect to C#. We asked you for questions and, as usual, you delivered -> this is your interview, Niners. Smiley Thanks for the great questions. Special thanks to Anders for taking an hour out of his insanely busy schedule to answer your questions.

Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers (click on a link below to get Anders' answer):

03:16 exoteric -> When is Async not appropriate to use?

05:29 exoteric -> How long before the Async "virus" permeates all of .NET?

07:23 rhm -> Did you consider implementing a more general language facility to implement Async?

12:24 felix9 -> The TouchStudio guys have discovered that the touch UI or NUI has unique tooling needs, any thought on that front?

14:10 AdamSpeight2008 -> Will vb.net and C# ever have the ability to discriminate methods with the same input type signature but different return types?

16:10 SteveRichter -> What do you think about dependency properties in WPF (and in general...)?

19:18 mikebmcl -> Has the C# language team ever considered or would they consider adding a way to use custom logic with automatically implemented properties?

21:16 ktr -> With the future addition of "compiler as a service" are there any plans for possible support for metaprogramming?

23:13 felix9 -> How could Roslyn serve us 'coders' better directly?

26:10 Charles -> How much can you do with CaaS?

27:37 felix9 -> Programming language design, Delphi's impact on .NET, etc.

29:42 Bas -> My two questions would be: why the beef with optional parameters when they so elegantly bring that whole block down to the essence of it, and more in general, what ways does he see to reduce the amount of ceremony in future versions of C#?

31:47 Richard.Hein -> Thoughts on C# higher kind types?

33:52 Ian2 -> Can you conceive of a time when you don't have to write code to build software?

36:55 JoshRoss -> .NET on x86 versus ARM...

38:48 Richard.Hein -> Are there features in other languages that make you jealous?

40:15 Charles -> What do you think about JavaScript, from a language designer's perspective?

45:10 Dr Herbie -> As C# grows and ages do you miss the simplicity of first version?

47:07 Dr Herbie -> Do you think C# is a complete language or do you spend time thinking about what's missing?

49:00 Charles -> What do you think about C++?

51:32 Steve Richter -> Difference between explicit type casting and the as operator?

53:39 exoteric -> What inspires you?

56:38 aL -> What do you think about expanding the c# event syntax for better composability/interop with things like Async/Rx?

1:00:00 aL -> What features would you like to remove from C# as it is today?

1:02:41 Charles -> why did you choose "unsafe" for the name of unsafe block?

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers Anders wanted to hear from you to get a sense of what's on your mind with respect to C#. We asked you for questions and, as usual, you delivered -> this is your interview, Niners. Thanks for the great questions. Special thanks to Anders for taking an hour out of his insanely busy schedule to answer your questions. Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers (click on a link below to get Anders' answer): 03:16 exoteric -> When is Async not appropriate to use? 05:29 exoteric -> How long before the Async "virus" permeates all of .NET? 07:23 rhm -> Did you consider implementing a more general language facility to implement Async? 12:24 felix9 -> The TouchStudio guys have discovered that the touch UI or NUI has unique tooling needs, any thought on that front? 14:10 AdamSpeight2008 -> Will vb.net and C# ever have the ability to discriminate methods with the same input type signature but different return types? 16:10 SteveRichter -> What do you think about dependency properties in WPF (and in general...)? 19:18 mikebmcl -> Has the C# language team ever considered or would they consider adding a way to use custom logic with automatically implemented properties? 21:16 ktr -> With the future addition of "compiler as a service" are there any plans for possible support for metaprogramming? 23:13 felix9 -> How could Roslyn serve us 'coders' better directly? 26:10 Charles -> How much can you do with CaaS? 27:37 felix9 -> Programming language design, Delphi's impact on .NET, etc. 29:42 Bas -> My two questions would be: why the beef with optional parameters when they so elegantly bring that whole block down to the essence of it, and more in general, what ways does he see to reduce the amount of ceremony in future versions of C#? 31:47 Richard.Hein -> Thoughts on C# higher kind types? 33:52 Ian2 -> Can you conceive of a time when you don't have to write code to build software? 36:55 JoshRoss -> .NET on x86 v 3838 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers Tue, 03 May 2011 15:36:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers Charles Charles 62 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers/RSS Anders Hejlsberg C# Niners Programming Languages Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying Asynchronous Programming Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# creator Anders Hejlsberg explains the new C# and VB.NET asynchronous programming model, available as Async CTP now, which makes async programming much easier for .NET developers.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-Async Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# creator Anders Hejlsberg explains the new C# and VB.NET asynchronous programming model, available as Async CTP now, which makes async programming much easier for .NET developers. 1896 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-Async Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:13:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-Async Charles Charles 33 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-Async/RSS Anders Hejlsberg C# Async CTP Anders Hejlsberg Trends and Future Directions in Programming Languages (DevDays 2010 Keynote) Where are programming languages going today and in the future? In this talk Anders shares his views of the trends that influence programming languages in general and C# in specific.

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This keynotes session is presented by Anders Hejlsberg during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in The Netherlands.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/Anders-Hejlsberg-Trends-and-Future-Directions-in-Programming-Languages-DevDays-2010-Keynote Where are programming languages going today and in the future? In this talk Anders shares his views of the trends that influence programming languages in general and C# in specific. This keynotes session is presented by Anders Hejlsberg during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in The Netherlands. 4217 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/Anders-Hejlsberg-Trends-and-Future-Directions-in-Programming-Languages-DevDays-2010-Keynote Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:02:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/Anders-Hejlsberg-Trends-and-Future-Directions-in-Programming-Languages-DevDays-2010-Keynote Matthijs Hoekstra Matthijs Hoekstra 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/Anders-Hejlsberg-Trends-and-Future-Directions-in-Programming-Languages-DevDays-2010-Keynote/RSS Anders Hejlsberg DevDays 2010 NL Netherlands C# 4.0 and beyond by Anders Hejlsberg In this talk Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# Chief Architect Anders Hejlsberg gives an overview of the new features in C# 4.0, including dynamic typing, co- and contra-variance, named and optional parameters, and improved COM interoperability. Anders will also discuss some of the ideas that are envisioned for future versions of C#.

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This session is presented by Anders Hejlsberg during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in The Netherlands.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/C-40-and-beyond-by-Anders-Hejlsberg In this talk Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# Chief Architect Anders Hejlsberg gives an overview of the new features in C# 4.0, including dynamic typing, co- and contra-variance, named and optional parameters, and improved COM interoperability. Anders will also discuss some of the ideas that are envisioned for future versions of C#. This session is presented by Anders Hejlsberg during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in The Netherlands. 4640 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/C-40-and-beyond-by-Anders-Hejlsberg Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:49:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/C-40-and-beyond-by-Anders-Hejlsberg Matthijs Hoekstra Matthijs Hoekstra 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/C-40-and-beyond-by-Anders-Hejlsberg/RSS Anders Hejlsberg C# DevDays 2010 NL Dynamic Languages Netherlands Anders Hejlsberg and Gilad Bracha: Perspectives on Programming Language Design Lang.NET Symposium 2009 was held on Microsoft's campus (make sure you watch the talks, which are available for your viewing pleasure). We were of course there and conducted several interviews with some of programming language design's brightest thinkers. Here, the great Anders Hejlsberg, father of C#, and one of my favorite language designers and personalities Gilad Bracha (you'll see more Gilad in the next few days discussing his Newspeak programming language) are interviewed by C# Program Manager Mads Torgersen (he works with Anders and others on the design of C#). Mads should consider a career in interviewing! Awesome job, man. This is a great conversation with two of the premiere programming language designers in the world. Enjoy!

See all the C9 Lang.NET conversations here. Their numbers will grow over the coming week so check back. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-and-Gilad-Bracha-Perspectives-on-Programming-Language-Design Lang.NET Symposium 2009 was held on Microsoft's campus (make sure you watch the talks, which are available for your viewing pleasure). We were of course there and conducted several interviews with some of programming language design's brightest thinkers. Here, the great Anders Hejlsberg, father of C#, and one of my favorite language designers and personalities Gilad Bracha (you'll see more Gilad in the next few days discussing his Newspeak programming language) are interviewed by C# Program Manager Mads Torgersen (he works with Anders and others on the design of C#). Mads should consider a career in interviewing! Awesome job, man. This is a great conversation with two of the premiere programming language designers in the world. Enjoy! See all the C9 Lang.NET conversations here. Their numbers will grow over the coming week so check back. 1589 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-and-Gilad-Bracha-Perspectives-on-Programming-Language-Design Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:33:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-and-Gilad-Bracha-Perspectives-on-Programming-Language-Design Charles Charles 21 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-and-Gilad-Bracha-Perspectives-on-Programming-Language-Design/RSS Anders Hejlsberg Gilad Bracha LangNET 2009 NewSpeak Programming Languages Anders Heljsberg: Happy Birthday Channel 9!
Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# Creator, reflects on Channel 9 at 5, Channel 9's birth, Niners, and to the future of Channel 9. Happy Birthday, Niners!!! Cheers!! 138 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:45:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Charles Charles 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9/RSS Anders Hejlsberg C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Niners Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Anders Hejlsberg - The Future of C#
Erik Meijer, Expert to Expert host, programming language designer and occasionally-radical category theoritician, has spent many years working with Anders and the C# team. As you may know, Erik has been a key contributor to the addition of functional constructs to C#. 

Here, Erik and Anders wax on topics ranging from the design of C# 4.0's dynamic keyword (what's the thinking behind the thinking) to the potential near and far future of the C# language (and general purpose imperative programming, generally). Anders also spends some time at the whiteboard explaining C# 4.0's support for covariance and contravariance. Of course, we can't forget about concurrency and parallelism, so we don't.

As you might expect, the conversation takes some interesting jaunts into various programming language design rabbit holes. For example, Anders discusses the notion of creating a new language to support new problem domains versus extending current languages to meet the needs of developers who need to express solutions to complex problems (so, how do you make a language like C# more dynamic in the sense that it can readily help developers solve problems that the language was not initially designed to solve?). We talk about the work being done on a service-oriented C# compiler (compiler as a service), C# as an ESDL container (or as an EDSL itself to be hosted in other environments...) and much more. This is a fantastic conversation with some of Microsoft's true visionaries. Enjoy. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Anders-Hejlsberg-The-Future-of-C It's always a pleasure to get a chance to sit down and geek out with Anders Hejlsberg. Anders is a Microsoft Technical Fellow (a Technical Fellow is the highest ranking technical position at Microsoft) and programming language design master. He's the creator of C# and one of the founders of .NET. Anders is an expert language design craftsman. C# is one of the most popular languages Microsoft has created and certainly the most widely used language by developers who target the .NET platform. Erik Meijer, Expert to Expert host, programming language designer and occasionally-radical category theoritician, has spent many years working with Anders and the C# team. As you may know, Erik has been a key contributor to the addition of functional constructs to C#. Here, Erik and Anders wax on topics ranging from the design of C# 4.0's dynamic keyword (what's the thinking behind the thinking) to the potential near and far future of the C# language (and general purpose imperative programming, generally). Anders also spends some time at the whiteboard explaining C# 4.0's support for covariance and contravariance. Of course, we can't forget about concurrency and parallelism, so we don't.As you might expect, the conversation takes some interesting jaunts into various programming language design rabbit holes. For example, Anders discusses the notion of creating a new language to support new problem domains versus extending current languages to meet the needs of developers who need to express solutions to complex problems (so, how do you make a language like C# more dynamic in the sense that it can readily help developers solve problems that the language was not initially designed to solve?). We talk about the work being done on a service-oriented C# compiler (compiler as a service), C# as an ESDL container (or as an EDSL itself to be hosted in other environments...) and much more. This is a fantastic conversatio 4232 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Anders-Hejlsberg-The-Future-of-C Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:16:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Anders-Hejlsberg-The-Future-of-C Charles Charles 52 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Anders-Hejlsberg-The-Future-of-C/RSS Anders Hejlsberg CLR Concurrency C# 4.0 Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Functional Programming Parallel Computing Parallelism Programming Languages Meet Silverlight Authors and Anders Hejlsberg at PDC2008 book signings and more. Anders Hejlsberg, who will be signing copies of the C# Programming Language on Monday, October 27 at 3:30 PM, will only be around for 30 minutes, and we're expecting a lot of people to show up!  ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/PDCNews/Meet-Silverlight-Authors-and-Anders-Hejlsberg-at-PDC2008 There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book launchings, book signings and more. Anders Hejlsberg, who will be signing copies of the C# Programming Language on Monday, October 27 at 3:30 PM, will only be around for 30 minutes, and we're expecting a lot of people to show up!  http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/PDCNews/Meet-Silverlight-Authors-and-Anders-Hejlsberg-at-PDC2008 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:04:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/PDCNews/Meet-Silverlight-Authors-and-Anders-Hejlsberg-at-PDC2008 D. Begley D. Begley 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/PDCNews/Meet-Silverlight-Authors-and-Anders-Hejlsberg-at-PDC2008/RSS Agenda Anders Hejlsberg Announcements Laurence Moroney PDC PDC 2008 PDC08 Silverlight 2 Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design JAOO. Like last year, I was very fortunate to get to sit down with a few key players in the programming languages design field and watch several technical presentations that span the industry and problems we face as software developers. One of the truly great things about JAOO is that it is not a product-focused conference: it's about programming first and foremost and enables the sharing of perspectives and ideas among the world's best and brightest programming minds. As you can imagine, I, like many technical types here at Microsoft, am a huge fan of JAOO. Thank you Trifork!!!

In this conversation Microsoft Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C# Anders Hejlsberg sits down with programming language design legend and computer scientist Guy Steele (creator of Scheme and expert in several languages ranging from LISP to Java). I think Guy is one of the smartest people I've ever met.

The topic of conversation is the elephant in the modern general purpose programmer's living room: Concurrency. With today's widely-used general purpose languages like C++, Java, C#, VB, Ruby etc it's hard to express parallelism in productive ways. Anders et al are working on both language enhancements to C# and VB.NET and BCL support (Parallel Extensions to .NET for example). Today, Guy is working on a mathematical language (domain specific as opposed to general purpose) and runtime, Fortress, that is so concurrent it makes it hard for programmers to even write sequential code!

Listen in to two of the programming industry's most successful thinkers and get a sense of their perspectives on the future of general purpose programming languages now that Concurrency and Parallelism are entering the development status quo.

Enjoy. More JAOO coverage to come. You can watch Anders' keynote on language futures here. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Guy-Steele-Concurrency-and-Language-Design This is the second year I've been lucky enough to take part in the cross-platform software engineering conference JAOO. Like last year, I was very fortunate to get to sit down with a few key players in the programming languages design field and watch several technical presentations that span the industry and problems we face as software developers. One of the truly great things about JAOO is that it is not a product-focused conference: it's about programming first and foremost and enables the sharing of perspectives and ideas among the world's best and brightest programming minds. As you can imagine, I, like many technical types here at Microsoft, am a huge fan of JAOO. Thank you Trifork!!!In this conversation Microsoft Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C# Anders Hejlsberg sits down with programming language design legend and computer scientist Guy Steele (creator of Scheme and expert in several languages ranging from LISP to Java). I think Guy is one of the smartest people I've ever met.The topic of conversation is the elephant in the modern general purpose programmer's living room: Concurrency. With today's widely-used general purpose languages like C++, Java, C#, VB, Ruby etc it's hard to express parallelism in productive ways. Anders et al are working on both language enhancements to C# and VB.NET and BCL support (Parallel Extensions to .NET for example). Today, Guy is working on a mathematical language (domain specific as opposed to general purpose) and runtime, Fortress, that is so concurrent it makes it hard for programmers to even write sequential code! Listen in to two of the programming industry's most successful thinkers and get a sense of their perspectives on the future of general purpose programming languages now that Concurrency and Parallelism are entering the development status quo.Enjoy. More JAOO coverage to come. You can watch Anders' keynote on l 2093 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Guy-Steele-Concurrency-and-Language-Design Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:27:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Guy-Steele-Concurrency-and-Language-Design Charles Charles 19 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Guy-Steele-Concurrency-and-Language-Design/RSS Anders Hejlsberg Concurrency JAOO2008 Programming Languages C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team
There are some new faces (and some old ones (not in terms of age, mind you Smiley). As expected, merging functional constructs into imperative C# are still top of mind for the C# design team. Here, you'll meet some new programming language gurus and some old time Niners (you'll recall the great Eric Lippert. He was in fact the very first developer we interviewed for C9 back in 2004 - even though his was not the first interview posted, it was the first one shot and the one where Lenn, Jeff, Scoble, Bryn and myself looked at each other and said "wow, we are on to something here!".).

C# 4.0 will contain many new features that will help developers be, yeah, you've heard it before, more productive. There's also some very interesting work going on with adding dynamic constructs to the language, which is of course very interesting given the static nature of the C# language.

In this video you will not get any specific details since the C# team wants to reveal exactly what they've done at PDC 2008. That said, you'll still get a very clear sense of what they've been up to and where they're taking the language.

It's always a pleasure to chat with Anders and team. I think you'll enjoy this one. On a personal note, I was coming down with a cold during this interview so please excuse the asking of the same question more than once (though in a different context). Oh, the joys of cold medicine. You know, the same stuff Lenn was on when he conceived the idea of Channel 9 several years ago. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-40-Meet-the-Design-Team What's the C# team up to these days? Who's on the C# 4.0 design team, anyway? With the looming problem of manycore facing developers now and certainly in the near future (to a much greater extent - programming for 80 core (asymmetric to boot) processors, anyone?). I thought it was time to find out what Anders et al are working on to get a clear sense of C#'s near (and not-so-near) future so I asked if I could come to one of their design meetings to have an informal chat (are we ever formal on C9?) and meet the people behind the next iteration of the most popular .NET programming language.There are some new faces (and some old ones (not in terms of age, mind you ). As expected, merging functional constructs into imperative C# are still top of mind for the C# design team. Here, you'll meet some new programming language gurus and some old time Niners (you'll recall the great Eric Lippert. He was in fact the very first developer we interviewed for C9 back in 2004 - even though his was not the first interview posted, it was the first one shot and the one where Lenn, Jeff, Scoble, Bryn and myself looked at each other and said "wow, we are on to something here!".).C# 4.0 will contain many new features that will help developers be, yeah, you've heard it before, more productive. There's also some very interesting work going on with adding dynamic constructs to the language, which is of course very interesting given the static nature of the C# language. In this video you will not get any specific details since the C# team wants to reveal exactly what they've done at PDC 2008. That said, you'll still get a very clear sense of what they've been up to and where they're taking the language.It's always a pleasure to chat with Anders and team. I think you'll enjoy this one. On a personal note, I was coming down with a cold during this interview so please excuse the asking of the same question more than once (though in a different context). Oh 3179 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-40-Meet-the-Design-Team Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-40-Meet-the-Design-Team Charles Charles 61 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-40-Meet-the-Design-Team/RSS Anders Hejlsberg C# 4.0 Eric Lippert Parallel Computing Paul Vick Programming Languages Anders Hejlsberg, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman: Software Composability and the Future of
Answers to these questions and much more are to be found in this interview with some of Microsoft's leading language designers and programming thought leaders: Anders Hejlsberg, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C#, Herb Sutter, Architect in the C++ language design group, Erik Meijer, Architect in both VB.Net and C# language design and programming language guru, and Brian Beckman, physicist and programming language architect working on VB.Net.

This is a great conversation with some of the industry's most influential programming language designers. Tune in. You may be surprised by what you learn... ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Herb-Sutter-Erik-Meijer-Brian-Beckman-Software-Composability-and-the-Future-of How will imperative programming languages evolve to suit the needs of developers in the age of Concurrency and Composability? What role can programming languages play in enabling true composability? What are the implications of LINQ on the furture of managed (CLS-based) and unmanaged(C++) languages? How will our imperative languages (static) become more functional (dynamic) in nature while preserving their static "experience" for developers? Answers to these questions and much more are to be found in this interview with some of Microsoft's leading language designers and programming thought leaders: Anders Hejlsberg, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C#, Herb Sutter, Architect in the C++ language design group, Erik Meijer, Architect in both VB.Net and C# language design and programming language guru, and Brian Beckman, physicist and programming language architect working on VB.Net.This is a great conversation with some of the industry's most influential programming language designers. Tune in. You may be surprised by what you learn... 3372 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Herb-Sutter-Erik-Meijer-Brian-Beckman-Software-Composability-and-the-Future-of Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:32:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Herb-Sutter-Erik-Meijer-Brian-Beckman-Software-Composability-and-the-Future-of Charles Charles 35 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Herb-Sutter-Erik-Meijer-Brian-Beckman-Software-Composability-and-the-Future-of/RSS Anders Hejlsberg Brian Beckman C++ Erik Meijer F# LINQ Microsoft Research Microsoft Personalities MS Research Software Composability VB.NET Anders Hejlsberg and Chris McConnell: Reflections on LINQ, Desktop Search, WinFS, Functional and Int
This video is the conversation that happened. Sorry about all the background noise, but sometimes being impromptu like this can impact sound quality (not to mention it was filmed in a very busy speakers lounge at the event...).

Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Chris-McConnell-Reflections-on-LINQ-Desktop-Search-WinFS-Functional-and-Int I met Chris McConnell, an Architect on the Desktop Search team, in Barcelona at Tech Ed 2006. He mentioned to me that he had never met Anders and wanted to talk to him about LINQ over Desktop Search and get Anders' view of Intentional Programming. In true Channel 9 fashion, I thought "OK. Well, there's Anders over there, let's go talk to him and I'll film it". This video is the conversation that happened. Sorry about all the background noise, but sometimes being impromptu like this can impact sound quality (not to mention it was filmed in a very busy speakers lounge at the event...).Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy. 1117 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Chris-McConnell-Reflections-on-LINQ-Desktop-Search-WinFS-Functional-and-Int Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Chris-McConnell-Reflections-on-LINQ-Desktop-Search-WinFS-Functional-and-Int Charles Charles 20 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Chris-McConnell-Reflections-on-LINQ-Desktop-Search-WinFS-Functional-and-Int/RSS Anders Hejlsberg Desktop Desktop Search LINQ