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C# History
History of C# language is interesting to know. Here we are going to discuss brief history of C# language.
C# is pronounced as "C-Sharp". It is an object-oriented programming language provided by Microsoft that runs on .Net Framework.
Anders Hejlsberg is known as the founder of C# language.
It is based on C++ and Java, but it has many additional extensions used to perform component oriented programming approach.
C# has evolved much since their first release in the year 2002. It was introduced with .NET Framework 1.0 and the current version of C# is 5.0.
Let's see the important features introduced in each version of C# are given below.