Anders Hejlsberg (born December 1960^[1]) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. He currently works for Microsoft, where he is the lead architect of the C# programming language. Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ... Microsoft is one of few companies engaging itself in the console wars Where they are up against sony, nintendo, and of course sharps new console which may cause a threat. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

Early life

Hejlsberg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and studied engineering at the Technical University of Denmark but did not graduate[1]. While at the university in 1980 he began writing programs for the Nascom microcomputer, including a Pascal compiler which was initially marketed as the Blue Label Pascal compiler for the Nascom-2. However, he soon rewrote it for CP/M and MS-DOS, marketing it first as Compas Pascal and later as PolyPascal. Later the product was licensed to Borland, and integrated into an IDE to become the Turbo Pascal system. Turbo Pascal competed with PolyPascal. The compiler itself was largely inspired by the "Tiny Pascal" compiler in "Algorithms and Data Structures = Programs" one of the most influential computer science books of the time. Anders and his partners ran a computer store in Copenhagen and marketed accounting systems. Their company, PolyData was the distributor for Microsoft products in Denmark which put them at odds with Borland. Philippe Kahn and Anders first met in 1986, for all those years, Niels Jensen had successfully handled the relationship between Borland and Polydata. For other uses, see Copenhagen (disambiguation). ... Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)) was founded in 1829 as the College of Advanced Technology (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt) belonging to the University of Copenhagen. ... The Lucas Nascom 1 and 2 were single-board computer kits issued in 1977 and 1979, respectively, based on the Zilog Z80 and including a keyboard and video interface, as well as a serial port that could be used for storing data on a tape cassette using the Kansas City... The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular microcomputers of its era, and is the best selling home computer of all time. ... Pascal is an imperative computer programming language, developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a language particularly suitable for structured programming. ... CP/M was an operating system originally created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in California. ... Turbo Pascal 3. ... Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in California. ... Philippe Kahn Philippe Kahn Working on the first camera-phones Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952)[1] is an American technology innovator and entrepreneur, French-born, known as the founder of Borland, a producer of software development tools for as well as Starfish Software, the creator of the first wireless...

At Borland

In Borland's hands, Turbo Pascal became the most commercially successful Pascal compiler ever. Hejlsberg remained with PolyData until the company came under financial stress, at which time, in 1989 he moved to California and became Chief Engineer at Borland. There he remained until 1996. During this time he developed Turbo Pascal further, and eventually he became the chief architect for the team which produced the replacement for Turbo Pascal, Delphi. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

At Microsoft

Hejlsberg became one of the key targets for Microsoft and in a succession of offers, Borland could not match the offer made by Microsoft. In 1996, Hejlsberg left Borland and joined archrival Microsoft. One of his first achievements was the J++ programming language and the Windows Foundation Classes; he also became a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow. Since 2000, he has been the lead architect of the team developing the C# programming language. Microsoft is one of few companies engaging itself in the console wars Where they are up against sony, nintendo, and of course sharps new console which may cause a threat. ... Microsoft Visual J++ is a compiler and an IDE for, a Java-based programming language, formerly incorporated into Microsoft Visual Studio. ... Visual J++ (pronounced Jay Plus Plus) is Microsofts now discontinued implementation of the Java programming language. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

Awards

He received the 2001 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award for his work on Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia with the subtitle Running Light without Overbyte was the full title of the pioneer microcomputer hobbyist newsletter published from early 1976 by Bob Albrecht and Dennis Allisons Peoples Computer Company. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Together with Shon Katzenberger, Scott Wiltamuth, Todd Proebsting, Erik Meijer, Peter Hallam and Peter Sollich , Anders was recently awarded a Technical Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement for their work on the C# language. a video about this is available at Outstanding Technical Achievement: C# Team Erik Meijer Erik Meijer (born on 5 December 1944 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Socialistische Partij, part of the European Left and sits on the European Parliaments Committee on Transport and Tourism. ...

Published work

• The C# Programming Language, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-321-33443-4 , June 9, 2006

The C# Programming Language, Second Edition

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Notes

1. ^ Hejlsberg states in a video at the Microsoft Museum that his birthdate is 1960, but most other sources say 1961. At TechEd 2006 in Barcelona, Anders confirmed his birthdate as December 1960

External links

• Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg Receives Prestigious Excellence in Programming Award
• 2001 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award
• JavaWorld of 1997 writes how Hejlsberg went to Microsoft
• Borland vs. Microsoft case CV766013

Interviews

• Interview from .NET Developer's Journal, Vol 3 issue 2.
• The C# Design Process
• The Trouble with Checked Exceptions
• Delegates, Components and Simplexity
• Versioning, Virtual and Override
• Contracts and Interoperability
• Inappropriate Abstractions
• Generics in C#, Java and C++
• CLR Design Choices
• Microsoft's Hejlsberg touts .Net, C-Omega (now Linq) technologies
• Deep Inside C#: An Interview with Microsoft Chief Architect Anders Hejlsberg
• C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• Video interview at channel9

Videos

• Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg
• Anders Hejlsberg - Tour through computing industry history at the Microsoft Museum
• Anders Hejlsberg - What's so great about generics?
• Anders Hejlsberg - Programming data in C# 3.0
• Anders Hejlsberg - What brought about the birth of the CLR
• Anders Hejlsberg - More C# Talk from C#'s Architect (Happy Birthday Video #3)
• Anders Hejlsberg - LINQ
• Anders Hejlsberg - Whiteboard with Anders Hejlsberg
• Anders Hejlsberg - LINQ and Functional Programming

• Outstanding Technical Achievement: C# Team