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EP 34 - Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Technical Fellow and creator of Typescript, C#, Turbo Pascal and Delphi on programming languages, and the power of working on long term projects

The Aarthi and Sriram Show

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Is There Something Fundamentally Better About Being Close to Metal That Changes Programming?

In the nineties, programmers had to be very good at writing machine code because there was no way you could write in a high level programming language. But it also forced you to do an awful lot of uninteresting housekeeping and Debugging. "I sometimes lament that this enormous capacity that computers have now is basically a bottomless pit," he says.

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