[lindbergh]

Erik Meijer a very engaging person! If I recall correctly, he spearheaded the Linq project for C# back in mid-2000s.

In particular, I suggest his Haskell lectures to anyone interesting by theoretical aspects of functional programming. https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Fun...

[chubot]

I just read over "Confessions of a used programming language salesman" [1] again.

I didn't quite get it the first time around, but now I get it. Good read. It is about the road from research to production, culminating in LINQ.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17368623574878046...