On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Howard Page-Clark wrote:
People may be interested to listen to this 20 minute interview with Anders
(and a MS colleague named Steve Lucco) in which they discuss Java,
Javascript, C#, Typescript, XMl...
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/619759/CodeProject-interviews-Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Steve
They also mention Microsoft's interest in "outreach to the broader
development community" (i. e. non-Windows), and their view that Javascript is
the only real cross-platform language.
(Anders was the original architect of Delphi, now the chief architect of C#).
And he is now the architect of the new Microsoft Javascript engine.
Which helps explain why they have this view, which is strange to say the least.
Java was cross-platform long before Javascript.
But they don't own it, which is the major obstacle for M$ to adopt it.
It's always useful to have this kind of information in your head to put things
in perspective.
This talk is not so innocent as it may seem.
Michael.
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