From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg



Thanks much to Anders for the interview!

0:00 Video foreword
0:20 Introduction & current work
1:06 Getting into programming languages & Turbo Pascal
2:11 Lessons from early personal computing
3:26 Borland experience
4:36 Delphi
6:34 Graphical programming languages
7:54 Switch to Microsoft & background for .NET
9:56 C# in the context of Java
11:18 Classes vs structs & value objects
14:16 Getting into TypeScript
17:02 Surprising success
18:19 JS functional programming & TS feature set
19:55 Common Language Runtime & language vs platform
22:18 Future impact of machine learning on programming
24:02 Closing words

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