(You’ll have to excuse any misquotes, I was typing as fast as I could, and mostly I think I got it right)
Avalon goes by the enterprise acronym WPF, or as Don likes to call it, “blinking lights“.
It helps with the Feds to state you’re not the only platform in the world, so Microsoft is now big on interoperability, or as Don puts it: “We cannot carpet the entire world, but we can put on slippersâ€.
Why catchy Indigo gave way to tooth-breaking WCF: “We put these names in because they suck. … We didn’t want people saying ‘I’m an Indigo’ programmerâ€.
On WCF vs SCA vs JBI vs fast infoset and the whole standards soup: “We don’t just send standard diplomats to exotic locations to argue abstractions. Because we’ve seen XSD and what happens with thatâ€.
On BRE vs DSL, and why meta-programming is important: “We’ve hit the scalability wall on the for loopâ€.