{"id":495,"date":"2008-02-01T22:20:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2008-02-01T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T21:20:57","slug":"anders-hejlsberg-languages-are-becoming-amalgam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/495-anders-hejlsberg-languages-are-becoming-amalgam.html","title":{"rendered":"Anders Hejlsberg: Languages are becoming amalgam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Neward has some notes on Microsoft’s recent Lang.NET symposium<\/a>. In his notes on Day One<\/a> he  mentions a remark by Anders Hejlsberg that “languages are becoming amalgam”. I don’t have any more details on what was said but it chimes with what I’ve observed in the last few years. We’ve seen C# and .NET take on characteristics of functional and dynamic languages; we’ve seen C# and Java adopt similar features; we’ve seen JavaScript\/ActionScript evolve into another similar language.<\/p>\n

Neward adds:<\/p>\n

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if languages are slowly “bleeding” out of their traditional taxonomies, how will the vast myriad hordes of developers categorize themselves?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Personally I’ve long thought that good developers can adapt relatively easily to different languages. Maybe it is more interesting now to look at development methodologies, whether implicit or explicit.<\/p>\n

Further, even if business\/web development languages are converging, native code memory-juggling in C or C++ remains distinctive and necessary.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: anders hejlsberg<\/a>, lang.net<\/a>, c#<\/a>, java<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ted Neward has some notes on Microsoft’s recent Lang.NET symposium. In his notes on Day One he  mentions a remark by Anders Hejlsberg that “languages are becoming amalgam”. I don’t have any more details on what was said but it chimes with what I’ve observed in the last few years. We’ve seen C# and .NET … Continue reading Anders Hejlsberg: Languages are becoming amalgam<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}