An Interview With Eric Lippert

dgritsko · on April 22, 2014

Is there a reason why you linked to your blog, and not the full interview at the original source?

http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-progr...

wslh · on April 22, 2014

It seems like the poster is a spammer. All his posts are texts copied from other sources.

dang · on April 22, 2014

We banned the site and changed the link. Thanks wslh and dgritsko.

fiberbrb · on April 23, 2014

but in the very beginning it states "Here we host an overall summary of the highlights of the interview ranging over topics as diverse as the future of C#, asynchronous v parallel, Visual Basic and more (the link to the full interview on i-programmer can be found at the end of this page)". How can this be considered spam ????????????? I think that the notion was to read the highlights and if you find it interesting and want to see more then follow the link to the whole interview

wslh · on April 24, 2014

Do you ever see a site like this that was not a spammer? I don't think too many people will click in the link the whole interview.

fiberbrb · on April 24, 2014

if that is so, then you must consider this one as the exception to the rule since that's the PR manager of O'Reilly UK not just 'someone'....

wslh · on April 24, 2014

...since that's the PR manager of O'Reilly UK not just 'someone'

If she was my mother I would do the same.

fiberbrb · on April 24, 2014

it wasn't meant in that to treat her in a 'special way', but that being the PR manager of O'Reilly for the whole of UK proves that she is NOT a spammer and that she should not be treated as one

wslh · on April 25, 2014

You can see blackhat tactics everywhere. Please take a look at the "Reddit Bans The Atlantic, Businessweek In Anti-Spam Crusade": http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-...

I love The Atlantic but they were engaged in these blackhat tactics.

darklajid · on April 22, 2014

Her. Taken from that very blog:

"Josette Garcia is the PR / Marketing Manager for O’Reilly in the UK.

If you would like to contact Josette, you can reach her at:"

So, spamming for O'Reilly? :)

suyash · on April 22, 2014

Thanks for the original link. Another reason why I read comments mostly before the story.

fayyazkl · on April 22, 2014

He has great insights and uses classical analogies to explain ideas. Here is his stackoverflow profile

http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert

containing a lot of answers, worth reading even if you are not exactly looking for solution to the problem at hand.

A classic one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6441218/can-a-local-varia...

kvb · on April 22, 2014

While C# isn't my favorite language, I always enjoy reading Eric Lippert's measured take on language design. He also has a particularly good sense for how to step back from a question and reframe it in an insightful way, which makes him a good interviewee.

suyash · on April 22, 2014

Well, C# basically followed the footsteps of Java. Nothing too novel about that.

infogulch · on April 22, 2014

> What will the feature set of C# 6.0 be?

> I am under NDA and cannot discuss it in details ... Incidentally, I knew Wesner slightly in the 1990s. Among his many claims to fame is he invented the pivot table. Interesting guy.

I.e. HINT HINT (just don't ask me what he's hinting)

wesnerm2 · on April 22, 2014

I don't usually see my name mentioned on the Internet, but I did not invent PivotTables. I essentially was the only full-time developer of PivotTables in Excel 97, and after that release, about 50% of the PivotTable code was written by me.

orand · on April 22, 2014

Pivot tables are from Excel which is very... functional. So, more functional programming features?

roberthahn · on April 22, 2014

I love the way Eric cheerfully ignores the practical aspects of thawing and freezing cooks while explaining by analogy the difference between asynchronous and parallel processing. I wish I could do that as flawlessly as he can.