Mads Torgersen
Mads Torgersen is the language PM for C# at Microsoft, where he runs the C# language design process and maintains the language specification. He is also on the design team for TypeScript and Visual Basic, and he contributes to the Roslyn project, which has reinvented the C# and VB compilers and taken them open source.
Many years ago Mads was a professor, and also contributed to a language starting with J.
Talks I've Given
-
Tune in to C#
Featuring Mads Torgersen
As you were looking the other way, C# became a cross-platform, open-source, high-performance, general-purpose, hyphenated-buzzword programming language. It is also very popular! I’ll take you on a journey of language design nerdery, targeted equally at C# newbies and oldies. Let’s see how some of...
languages -
Tune in to C#
Featuring Mads Torgersen
As you were looking the other way, C# became a cross-platform, open-source, high-performance, general-purpose, hyphenated-buzzword programming language. It is also very popular! I’ll take you on a journey of language design nerdery, targeted equally at C# newbies and oldies. Let’s see how some of...
languages -
Tune in to C#
Featuring Mads Torgersen
As you were looking the other way, C# became a cross-platform, open-source, high-performance, general-purpose, hyphenated-buzzword programming language. It is also very popular! I’ll take you on a journey of language design nerdery, targeted equally at C# newbies and oldies. Let’s see how some of...
languages -
3
History and Trends of Programming Languages with Erik Meijer & Mads Torgersen
Featuring Dave Thomas , Mads Torgersen and Erik Meijer
Epic double-length YOW! Tube with YOW! chairman and founder Dave Thomas chatting with Erik and Mads about the history and trends of programming languages. Bonus insights into their personal libraries with a show-and-tell of treasured books.
programming-history books haskell c# language-design -
Play in C#
Featuring Mads Torgersen
C# is evolving rapidly on all fronts. Runtime, libraries and IDE support show up on new platforms. The language itself has added many smaller features recently, and we are looking at much bolder steps for the next version. The “Roslyn” language engine offers real time access to...
languages -
Play in C#
Featuring Mads Torgersen
C# is evolving rapidly on all fronts. Runtime, libraries and IDE support show up on new platforms. The language itself has added many smaller features recently, and we are looking at much bolder steps for the next version. The “Roslyn” language engine offers real time access to...
languages -
Play in C#
Featuring Mads Torgersen
C# is evolving rapidly on all fronts. Runtime, libraries and IDE support show up on new platforms. The language itself has added many smaller features recently, and we are looking at much bolder steps for the next version. The “Roslyn” language engine offers real time access to...
languages -
C# 5
Featuring Mads Torgersen
Mads Torgersen from Microsoft will talk about C# 5. We will probably be the first people in Europe to present on it. We are not able to say a lot about content, because it will only go public the week before with Anders at PDC... but as Mads is Anders Hejslberg's (the designer of the C#...
.net c# c#-5