Outstanding Technical Achievement: C# Team

Posted By: Charles | Apr 6th, 2007 @ 1:07 PM | 33,644 Views | 15 Comments
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!!!
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#Apr 6th, 2007 @ 2:48 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Damn! Nice video, Charles... Really, really nice!
#Apr 6th, 2007 @ 2:54 PM
swiatecki
swiatecki
.net - love it
Still watching it, but yeah its really nice Big Smile

(btw woho Anders is Danish Big Smile )

Happy Birthday c9:D
#Apr 6th, 2007 @ 3:08 PM
RoyalSchrubber
RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Excellent video Charles, I always enjoy talking about language development Smiley

Thx.
#Apr 6th, 2007 @ 3:55 PM
SecretSoftware
SecretSoftware
Code to live, but Live to code.

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

Thanks for this, Charles. You Rock!
#Apr 6th, 2007 @ 7:17 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

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.

C

#Apr 6th, 2007 @ 11:48 PM
dot_tom
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.
#Apr 7th, 2007 @ 12:11 AM
Cyonix
Cyonix
Me
This video highlights exactly what channel9 is about: the conversation

Great video and great conversation, thanks Smiley
#Apr 7th, 2007 @ 6:45 AM
Ion Todirel
Ion Todirel
buuu
is always great to hear Anders and his fellows, thanks Charles really great interview!

Keep on posting,
C, i mean I Smiley
#Apr 8th, 2007 @ 9:13 AM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...
Congrats c# team!  Thanks for sharing.
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