C# interview

[bearophile]

Interview to Anders Hejlsberg, one C# author:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1149786074;fp;;fpid;;pf;1

This is one of the questions:
>Would you do anything differently in developing C# if you had the chance?<

This part of the answer shows a future feature of D (note that Delight already has this):

>50% of the bugs that people run into today, coding with C# in our platform, and the same is true of Java for that matter, are probably null reference exceptions. If we had had a stronger type system that would allow you to say that 'this parameter may never be null, and you compiler please check that at every call, by doing static analysis of the code'. Then we could have stamped out classes of bugs.


Another question near the end:

>Where do you think programming languages will be heading in the future, particularly in the next 5 to 20 years?<

My answer: OMeta is the future.

Bye,
bearophile