Hejlsberg did amazing work on Turbo Pascal/Delphi, which were basically his personal inventions. He then crossed over, and got himself lost in the C#/.net unive

Hejlsberg did amazing work on Turbo Pascal/Delphi, which were basically his personal inventions. He then crossed over, and got himself lost in the C#/.net universe - technology some of us wouldn't touch with the proverbial ten foot pole, or one of any length, for that matter. Considering that his (and my) compatriots Stroustrup and Lerdorf did C++ and PHP repsectively, a national apology might sort of be in order.