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Didn't C# start with Microsoft poaching the lead Delphi architect from Borland? A lot of people loved Delphi back in the day for its design too.

• pjmlp 6y ago
  Actually Borland's management helped quite a bit believing some Anders interviews.
• balfirevic 6y ago
  It's funny, the languages I ended up using the most throughout the years are Delphi, C# and most recently Typescript (where Anders is also a lead architect). And my very first lines of code could very well have been written in Turbo Pascal (also by him), if I remember correctly. As an aside, although common, I dislike the term "poaching" when it comes to hiring. It's negative connotations are inescapable, but also inappropriate when talking about hiring.
• tarasmatsyk 6y ago
  I’ve been using Delphi before and it looks like a grown/better Pascal. C# is a c-family language which seems weird right after the switch, however you start appreciate C syntax a bit later. I think C# was an attempt to design MS Java which is better than Java
  • dragonwriter 6y ago
    Your both right, C# was MS Java-but-better designed by the designer of Delphi, who had recently (perhaps specifically for that project) been hired by MS.
    • oaiey 6y ago
      The little ugly fact is that Anders was also involved in the Microsoft Java effort.