tee hee infoq has a new video of Microsoft's Mads Torgersen, at *of all places* the JVM language summit, quipping *of all things* about them "not having c# running on the jvm yet"
for people allergic to microsoft, the video is a good place to see what their take on java next is, without leaving home Brett writes >> LINQ is basically some syntactic sugar over Lambda expressions that have been in the language since 2.0 << No No No No, yes -but not really linq is a lot more than that, but it required the lambda expressions yes it is a while bunch of things under one name, but is a serious attempt to unify oo programming and query -whilst nudging the formaer towards a more functional style watch the Mads Torgersen presentation rather than accept my mangled description (there is also an interview with erik meijer on se-radio (bad audio, great guest)) i would add that what linq is *really* about -is microsoft FREAKING OUT over many-core, realising that they have to solve the problem before other, more server centric platforms (where the users helpfully tend to come to the processors), hiring Haskell heads like Meijer, to sit in a bar and have ideas about monadic programming in VB -and putting the results in the languages if you like Mads (he is one of the more likeable ms people imo) grit your teeth, go to ms channel 9, and find an interview from jaoo with Gilad Bracha, Erik Meijer and Mads -he comes across as the straight guy (who wouldn't with Bracha and Meijer sparring away) but makes some refreshing candid comments, which gives me some hope for the evil empire Pete F --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
