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Herding Nulls and Other C# Stories from the Future

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Summary Mads Torgersen shares future thinking of a fast-moving major programming language, C#. Torgersen discusses pattern matching, type classes, discriminated unions and much more.

Bio Mads Torgersen leads the C# language design process at Microsoft, where he has been involved in five versions of C#, and also contributed to TypeScript, Visual Basic, Roslyn and LINQ. Before he joined Microsoft, he worked as a university professor in Aarhus, Denmark, doing research into programming language design and contributing to Java generics.

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