Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and core developer on TypeScript...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryDenmark
gives great millions pleasure using
It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.
best build controls felt functions microsoft
I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.
manipulate programs themselves
Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.
days home week work
I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.
love people stuff
I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.
people tech
I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.
bridge database mastery open require requires scenario several
Not only does this scenario require familiarity with several programming languages, but it also requires a mastery of the application programming interfaces that bridge the different domains, such as ADO.NET or Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC).
built framework support web
The .NET framework was built really to support XML Web services.
base change dilemma large percent petition productive question stay technology trying
The VB6 petition is the dilemma you end up in when you have a large installed base you're trying to move. There's no question .Net is a very productive system. The only way you can stay 100 percent backward-compatible is not to change your technology base.
developer quest simplicity value
I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.
simplicity value
I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.
choices speak programming
Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.
happiness
Happiness comes from within
couple past thinking
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.