Tuesday night we had the oportunity to talk to the MS people in person. And there we were, face to face with Anders Hejlsberg, the C# man.

I think the focussing light of my camera startled him a litle, it did scare me the first time I saw that in action. Regarding that, I am quite surprised by the low visible security level on the conference. No bag searches, no gates, everything is vey easy going. Anyway all of us had a very relaxed talk on the language features of C#, quite often Delphi came up. As well as C++ and Java.

Anders did mention some future things he would like in the language. With the iterators and generics in place it would be nice to add some things to the language which operate on database data, something like a where in a list. Another interesting detail was on event-handlers. These days you have to check whether there is an event handler assigned before calling it. They did investigate the possibilty to add an invoke method, which did the check for you. The main reason that has not made it was to prevent the language starting to look old. There should be just one way to get something done, not two. Which does make sense.

To conclude a picture of me with Anders. Twenty years of shared programming joy. Thanks man, up to the next 20