C# LANGUAGE

C SHARP (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)

It was an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of the .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by ECMA and ISO .

Anders Hejlsberg leads development of the language, which has a procedural & object-oriented syntax based on C++ and includes influences from aspects of several other programming languages most notably Delphi and Java with a particular emphasis on simplification.

History of the language:

During the development of .NET, class libraries were originally written in a language called Simple Managed C (SMC). Later the language had been renamed C# and the class libraries as well as ASP.NET runtime had been ported to it.

C#'s principal designer and lead architect at Microsoft is Anders Hejlsberg, who was previously involved with the design of Visual J++, Borland Delphi, and Turbo Pascal languages. In interviews and technical papers he has stated that flaws in most major programming languages like C++, Java, Delphi, and Smalltalk drove the fundamentals of CLR, which in turn drove the design of C# programming language itself.