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Episode 129: F# with Luke Hoban

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Episode 129: F# with Luke Hoban

This episode is a discussion about F# with Microsoft’s F# program manager Luke Hoban.

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Episode 72: Erik Meijer on LINQ

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Episode 72: Erik Meijer on LINQ

This episode is a discussion with Erik Meijer on LINQ. This is a relatively technical discussion about the following topics: what is LINQ, what are the common abstractions between the different data structures one can access with LINQ, what is the relationship to established languages for querying, how does the integration into the type system of the host language work, how to specify the mapping between the language level classes and the data, and how optimizations are implemented (lazy loading, prefetching, etc.).

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Episode 14: Interview Ted Neward

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Episode 14: Interview Ted Neward

In this Episode we talk to Ted Neward. Since Ted is active in the .NET and Java universes, we started out by discussing some of the differences between the two platforms. The main discussion, however, focussed on new features in the C# 3.0 language. These include LINQ (language-integrated query). A very interesting discussion about extension methods, lamda expression, typing (dynamic, duck, compiler) and other language “tricks” follows. We also visited the topic of language development on the .NET and Java platforms in general, also looking at topics such as concurrency and the Scala language.

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