Bill Baxter wrote:
This blog post points to part of a talk by Anders Hejlsberg at PDC
talking about where they're going with C# 4.0:
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=C-Sharp-4.0-with-a-REPL-Read-Eval-Print-Loop-.html&Itemid=29
The part of this vid
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL16/
which he points to at 60 minutes talks about the "compiler as a service".
It's an idea which has been mentioned here many times, so I thought I
would post this link. Very cool that C# is going to make this idea a
reality.
--bb
Interesting, thanks for the link. At 12:16 - "But of course there are
many things we need to think about: immutable objects, purity of
functions, isolation... and these are things that are heavily on our
mind day-to-day." It's good to know D has all of the above taken care of.
Andrei