> Both Simon Peyton-Jones and Don Syme work at Micosoft Research in > Cambridge England.
Yup, that's where .NET generics came from I believe, great stuff :) > My first reaction was he must be working on F#, not C#. Perhaps, though the two tend to borrow ideas from each other. Erik "monad" Meijer isn't exactly known as an advocate of OO/procedural programming, yet has spent considerable time on both VB and C#. I'm not sure it makes much sense to put people into language boxes when working on a VM where interoperability is a primary goal. /Casper > On Sep 27, 6:48 am, Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
