Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg

Posted By: Charles | Feb 1st, 2006 @ 2:50 PM

This episode features industry luminary, Anders Hejlsberg. Before coming to Microsoft in 1996 he was well noted for his work as the principal engineer of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of the Delphi product line. At Microsoft he was architect for the Visual J++ development system and the Windows Foundation Classes (WFC). Promoted to Distinguished Engineer in 2000, Anders is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of Microsoft’s .NET framework. In this show, Anders is joined by a surprise guest.

This episode of “Behind the Code” is hosted by Barbara Fox – former senior security architect of cryptography and digital rights management for Microsoft.

“Behind the Code” with Jim Gray to be released March 2006

Tags: CSharp, MS Personalities

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Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Awesome show. I find myself smiling through out the show. One question I like to ask Anders is -- how did he manage to avoid something that'd claimed so many other MS engineers -- Starting a sentence with "so." Conscious decision? Smiley

Winston Pang

Really good video.

This guy's a genius.

I think i'm loving these videos, there's like nothing to hide, but just being honest about the past.

Vipul
Vipul

Good one. More such interviews please.

Smiley

AdityaG
OMG VISTA FTW LOLZ!!1one

I can't download the video... it just sits at connecting to download.microsoft.com Sad

Charles
Welcome Change

AdityaG wrote:

I can't download the video... it just sits at connecting to download.microsoft.com

Works fine for me. Your problem is most likely related to network conditions in your area. Keep trying! In the meantime, just stream!

C

WinInsider
Mike, MCAD

What captured my attention is when Anders spoke about elegance, taste and simplicity in writing software. I can not count how many times applying simplicity to problem, instead making wild ideas that compound complexity have paid off in long run. Taste, for me at least is being able to evaluate various approaches, and selecting one that is most elegant and cleanest. Unfortunely I see the opposite in code written by others, who suffer the consequences of their clumsy (kludgy) actions.

Mike
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AdityaG
OMG VISTA FTW LOLZ!!1one

That's my problem, I can't stream. I don't know why, WMP isn't recognizing mms:// at all. Keeps saying its in a format it can't understand. *sigh* I guess I will just wait.

EDITED BY Charles: Please send us mail and we will help you troubleshoot. No need to use this thread to do this... Thanks.

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Thanks Anders. Nice show.
--wjs

Deepankar_Bandopadhya

The best part was when Anders said "When you don't code (get your hands dirty) you tend to become one of those architect who thinks everything is possible"