A Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg, by Bill Venners with Bruce Eckel(August 4, 2003)

A Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg, by Bill Venners with Bruce Eckel August 4, 2003

These conversation includes 8 parts:

• In Part I: The C# Design Process, Hejlsberg discusses the process used by the team that designed C#, and the relative merits of usability studies and good taste in language design.
• In Part II: The Trouble with Checked Exceptions, Hejlsberg discusses versionability and scalability issues with checked exceptions.
• In Part III: Delegates, Components, and Simplexity, Hejlsberg discusses delegates and C#’s first class treatment of component concepts.
• In Part IV: Versioning, Virtual, and Override, Hejlsberg explains why C# instance methods are non-virtual by default and why programmers must explicitly indicate an override.
• In Part V: Contracts and Interoperability, Hejlsberg discusses DLL hell and interface contracts, strong names, and the importance of interoperability.
• In Part VI: Inappropriate Abstractions, Hejlsberg and other members of the C# team discuss the trouble with distributed systems infrastructures that attempt to make the network transparent, and object-relational mappings that attempt to make the database invisible.
• In Part VII: Generics in C#, Java, and C++, Hejlsberg compares C#’s generics implementation to Java generics and C++ templates, describes constraints in C# generics, and describes typing as a dial.
• In Part VIII: CLR Design Choices, Hejlsberg discusses IL instructions, non-virtual methods, unsafe code, value types, and immutables.