Episode 188 | Eric Lippert - Programming Languages and Impact

Guest: Eric Lippert @ericlippert Eric Lippert talks with Dave Rael about leverage, building tools, impact, and solving interesting problems Eric Lippert designs programming languages and other tools at Facebook. Other notable work includes designing C# analyzers at Coverity, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. Eric is now a C# MVP. He is on Twitter at "@ericlippert" and writes a blog about programming language design and other fabulous adventures in coding at http://ericlippert.com. Chapters: 0:56 - Dave introduces the show and Eric Lippert3:16 - Eric's career arc at Microsoft5:31 - Eric's history with many languages, environments, and tools at Microsoft7:33 - Eric's history and contribution to Stack Overflow9:10 - The new Microsoft11:01 - Eri'cs long tenure at Microsoft and departing to Facebook12:49 - Eric's life at Facebook and how it's different from and similar to Microsoft15:14 - Eric's impact16:39 - Relative strengths and weaknesses of different stacks and toolsets; perspectives of tool creators and tool users18:03 - How Eric got started in software24:00 - Eric's interest in languages27:42 - Eric's story of failure - futile programming effort34:37 - Eric's success story - multiplying the value of others by creating tools - delivering rearchitected C# compilers39:34 - How Eric stays current with what he needs to know42:05 - Eric's book recommendation44:25 - The things that have Eric most excited47:06 - Eric's top 3 tips for delivering more value51:01 - Keeping up with Eric Resources: Eric's Blog Eric on Stack Overflow Microsoft MVP Program Watcom Joel On Software - Joel Spolsky's Blog Coding Horror - Jeff Atwood's Blog Jeff Atwood's Poll on the name of the site that became Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky's Blog Post Announcing stackoverflow.com Raymond Chen Dam Busters Coverity OCaml Visio Sandi Metz on Developer On Fire The .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") on GitHub .NET Language Design Notes Jon Skeet on Developer On Fire Eric's book recommendation: Essential C# 6.0 (5th Edition) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology) - Mark Michaelis C# in Depth, 3rd Edition - Jon Skeet Purely Functional Data Structures (book) - Chris Okasaki Purely Functional Data Structures (PhD Thesis) - Chris Okasaki Eric's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Try to see abstractions Learn how to write Answer questions