Systems software research is irrelevant

Re:Systems software research is irrelevant by aguha on Sunday July 13, 2008 @05:09PM (#245331)

Speaking of Microsoft, C# and VB have picked up a host of features from academic languages. This eight-year old essay is obsolete.

-systems grad student (fair disclaimer)

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Re:Systems software research is irrelevant by henning on Sunday July 13, 2008 @06:15PM (#245359)

As much as I love the new features, it only took them three years to add, 20-30 years after those features were developed. How innovative!

You can't evaluate LINQ statements in the debugger, because that would require incremental compilation, which Microsoft's stack is nowhere close to supporting right now.

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Re:Systems software research is irrelevant by gaius on Monday July 14, 2008 @06:39AM (#245620)

Check out F#. Many new C# features are trialled there first.

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Re:Systems software research is irrelevant by schtog on Sunday July 13, 2008 @06:23PM (#245362)

Are you kidding me? I think it is more important than ever.

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