Anders Hejlsberg - Programming data in C# 3.0 | TheChannel9Team

yag
yag

Just wanted to point out that this is actually being worked on by a cross-language team. IOW, this isn't only a C# thing, but should be usable across .NET languages.

yag

Charles
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Excellent point. The merging of general purpose and database programming is certainly an effort that will require multiple teams working together. Anders is tasked primarily with thinking about the C# end of the spectrum. This is what he meant by "local focus".

Thanks for pointing this out, Yag.

Charles

schweitn

Of course what he's really talking about is Cw (That's C Omega)...

http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/

AT

To accomplish this goal Anders need to go to network databases instead of relational.

Network databases has much more similarities to OO programming language compared to 0 similarities in relational databases and SQL.

magnusandersson

I sure hope they have read Foundation for Object / Relational Databases: The Third Manifesto by
Chris J. Date...

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?sourceid=00397892457856981112&ISBN=0201309785&bfdate=06-16-2004+19:28:29

gsus

I am glad to see that C# 3 mixs concepts of the data-programming languages and the general-purpose programming languages. This feature not only refers to SQL, also refers to XPath, XQuery among others. It is the same concept that Comega.

lars

Isn't this something that will be improved with Object Spaces?

Does Anders have a blog btw?

/Lars.

zombie

I like the idea of seperating object persistence from object programming. Have you considered using attributes to define the object / database mapping in a similar way to XML serialization?

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Nope, I asked him if he could do one, but he said he's too busy (has several kids at home).