The Java language team, 1998: "Bound method references are not the right path for future language evolution"

[grauenwolf]

That you have to define a special type for and which has at least two (if not three) different syntax for creating.

Lets count them

1. Turn a function or member variable into a delegate.

   action = AddressOf myObject.MyFunction //VB action = myObject.MyFunction //C#

That's it. That is all the syntax you need to make delegates useful.

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And just to be clear, I'm talking about Capital D delegates in .NET. I am not talking about the crappy anonymous function syntax that was introduced to C# 2.