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Anders Hejlsberg is a distinguished engineer here. At least that's his official title. But that doesn't do justice to the role he's played in the industry (first at Borland, where he ran the team that developed Turbo Pascal and later Delphi, or here at Microsoft, where he and his team developed C#).
But, don't take our word for it -- listen in as he takes you (and interviewer Charles Torre) on a tour of part of
Microsoft's Museum and the part he played in computer industry history.
Ah, the fond memories of Turbo Pascal and college Data Structures classes. This also reminded me of the geek wars I'd be part of in high school where we had the Trash-80 camp waring against the Atari camp. Days to be missed...
This is fun: this is a repeat of a long-running debate we had back in '95 when Delphi shipped and I was on TeamB.
Delphi is a town of ancient Greece for which the correct pronunciation (according to Greeks) has a short "-ee" sound at the end, like "taxi". In the UK and the rest of Europe (as far as I know), we also pronounce it this way.
In the US, the predominant pronunciation ends in "eye". Anders pronounces it this way as well, but I think that's just because he's living there and has adopted American English.
So all of you who insist on calling it "Delph-eye", just remember when you're next looking for a cab to call out "Tax-eye! Tax-eye!" :o)
--Mike Scott
Yes, Anders Hejlsberg has made a great contribution. C# rocks (way better than java) !!!
Here are three videos from MS with Anders Hejlsberg
https://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/Seminar/en/20020213AHKeyNote/manifest.xml&rate=2
https://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/Episode035/default.asp
https://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/Episode008/default.asp
Mike
WinInsider wrote:Yes, Anders Hejlsberg has made a great contribution. C# rocks (way better than java) !!!
Here are three videos from MS with Anders Hejlsberg
https://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/Seminar/en/20020213AHKeyNote/manifest.xml&rate=2
https://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/Episode035/default.asp
https://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/Episode008/default.asp
Mike
C# goes back to “98! Anders is much more animated in this video then he is when speaking to a room full of people.
I found one more
video just posted on MSDN with Anders Hejlsberg.
Anders talks about Nullable types, With keyword, ValueType boxing and unboxing, and default method parameters.
UPDATED: MS has removed the video, but I still managed to trackdown the
video download.