Re:C# is the past, the present and the future
by teh_klev on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:52AM
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He isn't MSFT staff, read his "About the Author" page, he works for a Swedish company. Also he's a MS MVP, you can't be a Microsoft MVP and work for Microsoft at the same time.
Re:C# is the past, the present and the future
by jinushaun on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:54AM
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You're right. His use of "we" had me confused.
Re:C# is the past, the present and the future
by jsmeaton on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:57AM
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Nothing about that article suggested he works for MS and the style of writing alone is enough to convince me he doesn't.
Does Sun/Oracle sponsor all the different implementations of Java? Does the Python Foundation sponsor the various implementations of Python?
I'm guessing the work Microsoft are currently doing with Roslyn (compiler as a service) will benefit the various implementations also.
The C# spec is open and standardised, and if a particular group wants to pick it up and implement it, I find it a very weak argument to suggest that any company should throw money behind it.
C# is a great language and has evolved beautifully, but many people will still continue to avoid it because it's owned by MS and stuck on Windows (without the help of Mono). The next Google, Facebook or Twitter won't be written with C#.