Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0 in an interview with Computerworld.
Anders has this advice for students of software engineering:
And do you have any advice for up-and-coming programmers? I think it’s important to try to master the different paradigms of programs that are out there. The obvious object oriented programming is hopefully something that you will be taught in school. Hopefully school will also teach you functional programming, if not, that is a good thing to go look at.
Go look at dynamic languages and meta-programming: those are really interesting concepts. Once you get an understanding of these different kinds of programming and the philosophies that underlie them, you can get a much more coherent picture of what’s going on and the different styles of programming that might be more appropriate for you with what you’re doing right now.
Anyone programming today should check out functional programming and meta-programming as they are very important trends going forward.
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