I went to a few of his lectures, he was dabbling on use-site co- variance for Java at the time which eventually made it into Tiger. I therefore suspect he might have had something to do with providing definition-site co-variance in C# 4.
/Casper On Nov 7, 11:01 pm, RogerV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I invited Mads Torgersen a couple of years ago to come speak about > LINQ to the Seattle Java Users Group. He told us that his background > prior to working for Microsoft was as an academic researching computer > language ideas with Java. > > On Nov 6, 5:17 am, Pete F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
