C# – what's different in the language?
I had the chance to chat with Hejlsberg a couple of times about the C # language and what the initial purposes and requirements imposed in its creation were and which other languages inspired him or contributed to his ideas.
The first time we talked, in Tech-Ed 2001 (at Barcelona, Spain), I asked him about the principles of his language and what makes it different from others. He first said that it was not only him who created the language, but also a group of people, especially Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde, Peter Sollich, and Eric Gunnerson.
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One of the first books ever published on the subject was, A Programmer's Introduction to C#, Gunnerson's.E., APress, 2000).
About the principles, he mentioned this:
"One of the key differences between C# and these other languages, particularly Java, is that we tried to stay much closer to C++ in our design. C# borrows most of its operators, keywords, and statements directly from C+...
