ANDERS HEJLSBERG

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.