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Presentation: "Opening Keynote: Where Are Programming Languages Going?"

Time: Monday 09:10 - 10:00

Location: Store Sal

Abstract: Object-Oriented, Functional, Dynamic, Domain Specific, Meta, Concurrent... Where are programming languages going today and in the future? In this talk Anders shares his views of the trends that influence programming languages in general and C# in specific.
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Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Corporation

Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg

Anders Hejlsberg is a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation. He is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework. Previously, Anders was the architect for Visual J++ and the Windows Foundation Classes. Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Anders was a Principal Engineer at Borland International. As one of the first employees of Borland, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal and later worked as the Chief Architect of the Delphi product line. Anders studied Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.