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An Interview With Eric Lippert

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Is there a reason why you linked to your blog, and not the full interview at the original source?

http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-progr...

Thanks for the original link. Another reason why I read comments mostly before the story.

It seems like the poster is a spammer. All his posts are texts copied from other sources.

We banned the site and changed the link. Thanks wslh and dgritsko.

but in the very beginning it states "Here we host an overall summary of the highlights of the interview ranging over topics as diverse as the future of C#, asynchronous v parallel, Visual Basic and more (the link to the full interview on i-programmer can be found at the end of this page)". How can this be considered spam ????????????? I think that the notion was to read the highlights and if you find it interesting and want to see more then follow the link to the whole interview

Do you ever see a site like this that was not a spammer? I don't think too many people will click in the link the whole interview.

if that is so, then you must consider this one as the exception to the rule since that's the PR manager of O'Reilly UK not just 'someone'....

...since that's the PR manager of O'Reilly UK not just 'someone'

If she was my mother I would do the same.

it wasn't meant in that to treat her in a 'special way', but that being the PR manager of O'Reilly for the whole of UK proves that she is NOT a spammer and that she should not be treated as one

You can see blackhat tactics everywhere. Please take a look at the "Reddit Bans The Atlantic, Businessweek In Anti-Spam Crusade": http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-...

I love The Atlantic but they were engaged in these blackhat tactics.

Her. Taken from that very blog:

"Josette Garcia is the PR / Marketing Manager for O’Reilly in the UK.

If you would like to contact Josette, you can reach her at:"

So, spamming for O'Reilly? :)

He has great insights and uses classical analogies to explain ideas. Here is his stackoverflow profile

http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert

containing a lot of answers, worth reading even if you are not exactly looking for solution to the problem at hand.

A classic one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6441218/can-a-local-varia...

While C# isn't my favorite language, I always enjoy reading Eric Lippert's measured take on language design. He also has a particularly good sense for how to step back from a question and reframe it in an insightful way, which makes him a good interviewee.

Well, C# basically followed the footsteps of Java. Nothing too novel about that.

> What will the feature set of C# 6.0 be?

> I am under NDA and cannot discuss it in details ... Incidentally, I knew Wesner slightly in the 1990s. Among his many claims to fame is he invented the pivot table. Interesting guy.

I.e. HINT HINT (just don't ask me what he's hinting)

Pivot tables are from Excel which is very... functional. So, more functional programming features?

I don't usually see my name mentioned on the Internet, but I did not invent PivotTables. I essentially was the only full-time developer of PivotTables in Excel 97, and after that release, about 50% of the PivotTable code was written by me.

I love the way Eric cheerfully ignores the practical aspects of thawing and freezing cooks while explaining by analogy the difference between asynchronous and parallel processing. I wish I could do that as flawlessly as he can.

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