about the author

Eric Lippert is a software developer and designer of fine programming languages. He worked on Visual Basic, VBScript, Jscript, and C# at Microsoft, C# analyzers at Coverity, and the Hack and Bean Machine compilers at Facebook. Currently, he is taking a break from corporate work to write; fix up his 120-year-old house; and spend time below, on, and above the surface of Puget Sound. He occasionally updates his blog at https://ericlippert.com.