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Hmm, I've always appreciated Hejlsberg's implementation taste (at least in the first versions of his languages), but did he design that much from scratch? TP wa
by mhd 6y ago
Hmm, I've always appreciated Hejlsberg's implementation taste (at least in the first versions of his languages), but did he design that much from scratch? TP was a great compiler, but the language was pretty much taken from previous Wirth designs. C# was quite okay in the start, and I'll remain silent about C++.
I do agree with Wirth, but would probably nominate Kay, Goldberg, Wall and Meyer.
AFAIK Wirth didn't have much to do with Modula-3, by the way.
- wirrbel 6y agoIt depends on your scoping of languages. Heilsberg wasn't so much concerned with syntax, but Core API Building isn't any less important.
- mhd 6y agoI do wonder how big his influence was there. Or in general. Given that the company bet highly on this and it involved the whole Windows platform, there were quite a lot of cooks in the kitchen there. So a "designer" probably acts more like a "language manager" there, as opposed to clean room academic settings. Do this, don't do this, have a deep look at Cω…
- wirrbel 6y agoall relevant work, even if it is more coordination. I think knowing Delphi one can see a fingerprint in style that can be found again in C#.