Well it makes perfect sense though. If you care about technologies and engineering more than politics and religion, Microsoft is not a bad place to be. Though I'm sure some would try to spin this another way, probably the classic but lame "just use Scala" remark. It's sad that the Java world lost one of the few running engines, but on the other hand it's perfectly understandable on his part. Hejlsberg, Meier and Gafter. now that's one scary team I wouldn't want to play!
/Casper On Sep 27, 10:35 am, "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds about time for that cross-over-podcast with the dotnet rocks guys... > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Amarjeet Singh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Microsoft hired sometime back, Simon Peyton Jones, a Haskell pioneer, who > > supposedly is also behind F# [though, I am not sure 100% about this piece]. > > Another legend with them is Anders Hejlsberg, who is behind the C# language. > > He was the one who got Delphi to be a successor to Turbo Pascal at Borland. > > > Now, Neil Gafter is with them. > > -- > "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code." -- > Bill Harlan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
