Outstanding Technical Achievement: C# Team

Posted By: Charles | Apr 6th, 2007 @ 1:07 PM

C# team members Shon Katzenberger, Scott Wiltamuth, Todd Proebsting, Erik Meijer, Peter Hallam, Anders Hejlsberg, and Peter Sollich were recently awarded a Technical Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement for their work on the C# language. This award is particularly meaningful to the recipients as it is awarded by their technical peers. It's quite an honor.

Here we talk about the award, what it means, and then dig into the history, present and future of C#. We also dig into LINQ (why did we add it to the language? Does dynamic construct additions to imperative languages pollute the language? What does LINQ really mean in the context of the evolution of C#? The answers herein will surprise you, if you haven't thought hard about it already...)

Enjoy and Happy Birthday, Niners!!!

Tags: CSharp, LINQ, MS Personalities

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littleguru

Damn! Nice video, Charles... Really, really nice!

swiatecki

Still watching it, but yeah its really nice Big Smile

(btw woho Anders is Danish Big Smile

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Happy Birthday c9:D

RoyalSchrubber

Excellent video Charles, I always enjoy talking about language development Smiley

Thx.

SecretSoftware

Now if we get an update from the VB Team, this will be even more interesting.

Thanks for this, Charles. You Rock!

Charles

I'm really happy you enjoyed this. I know I did! I have a completely new perspective of LINQ and related language "atoms" and "molecules". It's always a humbling and honorable experience to be able to have conversations with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. I'm so thankful for Channel 9 and the incredible community of Niners.

Happy birthday to you all.

dot_tom

Wonderful video, it definately goes into my local long term storage drive Smiley

I'm deeply envious of you Charles for being able to fire questions at these folks. One imagines that if you where to have a 'heat map' displaying computer language and tool innovations in geographic terms then Redmond right now would be a burning bright blue-white spot on said map.

Innovation in language and associated tools is what keeps me so loyal to Windows. No other platform touches it. Much as I love the shell in Vista I find that DevEnv and increasingly PowerShell are really my 'desktop' these days.

Happy birthday to the team and kudos and thanks to all involved.