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What were they thinking? Language design choices that seem wrong, until they don't. - Bill Wagner

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Programming languagesC# and .NETLanguage design and type systems

Bill Wagner explores controversial language design decisions in C# and explains the rationale behind them.

Let's spend an hour exploring some of the most controversial language design choices in the C# language. We're going to explain why each of these decisions were made. We'll have some fun looking at where developers have concerns. We'll explain why the language teams made the decisions they made. You can attend and spend the ret of the time explaining why they were still wrong. NDC Conferences ndc-london.com ndcconferences.com

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u/JanEric1in r/ProgrammingLanguages • Recommends

Talks by designers of popular languages? I just come across this talk by someone involved with C# and was wondering if there are talks like this about other modern commonly used languages that explain the general design or some specific features of the language?