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October 31, 2005

Part 2 of Anders Hejlsberg Interview

Posted: 2005-10-31 23:12:00

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The second part of John Osborn's interview with C# architect Anders Hejlsberg is now available. The first part of the interview was made available on October 17, 2005.

This part of the interview discusses LINQ, comparing it with technologies for embedding SQL within various programming languages. There is some focus on the functional programming capabilities making their way into C#, as well as some discussion regarding upcoming developments. Hejlsberg also suggests that developers take advantage of the C# 2.0 generics and stronger typing, in addition to looking at the 3.0 previews.