Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

Happiness comes from within

My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.