Anders Article Part II & III

Bill Venners has released Part
II and Part III of his
interview series with Anders Hejlsberg on the C# Language Design Process.  There's
some great discussion on topics such as why C# does not have checked exceptions
like Java, simplicity versus simplexity, the beauty of delegates [my words],
and explaining how C# is classified as a component-oriented language. 

Speaking of component-oriented programming,  one of the things that has definitely
chanaged is the approach to programming.  Rather then creating one big monolothic
application, applications are divided into multiple components.  In fact,
one could argue that programming the .NET framework is less about writing code from
scratch but instead the process is really about linking pre-built components to
achieve a specific task.  

For those of you attending PDC this
year, Anders will be presenting the Visual C# "Whidbey": Language Enhancements
session :)

PS:  In case you missed Part I of the Interview series, you can find it here.