The language would also need to have some support for anonymous delegates and closures, or its callback waterfalls would have to be broken up into multiple meth

The language would also need to have some support for anonymous delegates and closures, or its callback waterfalls would have to be broken up into multiple methods that would have to manage the call state themselves. CLS really expected most languages to look a lot of like early C#, that is, Java with some Delphi/VB features grafted on.