On 10-Aug-2000, Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope they at least get rid of
> the hungarian notation while they are at it.
Yes, thankfullly they have indeed done that. That one got a round of
applause even from the (mostly) Microsoft faithful who attended PDC,
when it was mentioned in one of the sessions there.
> > Microsoft spent around $2M funding a bunch of groups working
> > on research and industrial programming languages to give
> > feedback on their work. (Haskell, Mercury, ML, Scheme, Oberon,
> > Eiffel, Python, Oz, etc...) While they acknowledged from the
> > start that getting any changes (apart from tailcall) into
> > version 1 was pretty unlikely, they have been listening,
> > taking notes, and even now the C# folks are getting
> > excited about the idea of putting generics into the language.
>
> Well, that sounds good. Are you speaking from personal knowledge
> here?
Yes, Tyson and I, as well as researchers from other groups, visited
Redmond several times. Note that tailcall was in already by the time
outside researchers were approached, so I don't know of any technical
suggestions made by outside researchers that have yet been acted on.
However, the fact that they have been asking for our suggestions and
taking notes is at least an improvement. I guess the really
interesting bit will be to see what goes in version two.
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