Posted by
Sun Liwen – 2009/01/05
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.