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woan
on March 28, 2011
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James Gosling joining Google
Thought I should point out MS also has quite a concentration of languages folks that were famous before joining MS:
Butler Lampson, Erik Meijer, Herb Sutter, Burton Smith, Anders Hejlsberg
statictype
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+1 for Anders Hejlsberg. He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C# - that's
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mihaelamj
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He created Turbo Pascal and Delphi when he was young and hungry. C# when he was well-fed and older. Not hungry in any way. Thus the over-engineering and bloat-ware.
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... and Simon Peyton-Jones (Haskell)
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