Anders Hejlsberg on C# 3.0

spongman writes "Channel9 has a video of Anders Hejlsberg demoing C# 3.0. The new language enhancements include implicitly typed locals, extension methods, strongly-typed lambda expressions, anonymous types, and LINQ - a builtin SQL-like syntax for data access. The spec, samples and a working compiler can be found on MSDN."

Re:Next version : line nunbers

[Anonymous Coward]

whoever modded this as troll never used GWBASIC :D

Re:Why implicitly typed locals?

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

I can easily take half a second out of my day to figure out what type a variable should be, and end up with more readable code.

Ahh, but just think of all those poor migrating Visual Basic programmers whose only expierience of a c type syntax has been a spattering of javascript. They'll feel right at home.

With any luck, we'll make programmers of them yet.

Re:The Microsoft Trap

[callipygian-showsyst]

Is anyone else here in a similar situation?

Yes! We has all these Apple Hypercard applications, then Apple dumped us like a hot potato! However, I'm prohibited from the /. "terms of service" from saying anything bad about Apple, or comparing Apple to Microsoft.

Re:Who is Anders Hejlsberg?

[Anonymous Coward]

>> a language I was an expert at one in the mid nineties

>You were an expert in a language without knowing its background and history?

Give him a break: he was only one year old.

Re:Is Java falling behind?

[horza]

Java's language features, by comparison to C#, seems to be moving along at a glacial pace, only recently getting features like foreach loops, and generics.

Even worse, C's language features don't seem to have moved since the late '70s. Thank god no-one is still using that any more.

Phillip.