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Book: The C# Programming Language

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

The principle designers of the C# language (Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde) have produced a third edition of their popular book, “The C# Programming Language”. Addison-Wesley, 2009, ISBN 978-0-321-56299-9.

This edition maps directly to V3 of Microsoft’s Visual C# compiler (http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/), and covers the features added in that release: query operators, compact lambda expressions, extension methods, and runtime access to expression trees.

Although V2 was standardized through Ecma (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm) and then through ISO, the new features for V2 were simply added to the standard as separate chapters. However, the 3rd edition of the book not only contains the new V3 materials, it also integrates the V2 material into the appropriate chapters. This book is a must-have for all serious C# programmers.

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 (abbreviated as SC 22) oversees the standards for programming languages and environments, that have been published jointly by ISO (www.iso.ch) and IEC (www.iec.ch). SC 22 meets at an annual Plenary to review the progress of its work. This year’s meeting was held in Delft, the Netherlands, on September 31 and October 1. The Chair of SC 22 is Rex Jaeschke (rex@RexJaeschke.com). Plenary attendees are delegates authorized by National Body (NB) members.
The technical work of SC 22 is done by its Working Groups (WGs), which are, as follows:

  • WG4 – COBOL
  • WG5 – Fortran
  • WG9 – Ada
  • WG11 – Binding Techniques
  • WG14 – C
  • WG16 – ISLisp
  • WG17 – Prolog
  • WG19 – Formal Specification Languages
  • WG21 – C++
  • WG23 – Programming Language Vulnerabilities

Standards developed outside SC 22, but submitted to it via some external process, and published by ISO and IEC, include the languages C#, ECMAScript, Forth, and Mumps/M, and the platforms CLI (a subset of Microsoft’s .NET), Linux Standards Base, and POSIX.

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