Anders Hejlsberg
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Anders Hejlsberg (born c. 1961Hejlsberg states in a video at the Microsoft Museum that his birthdate is 1960, but most other sources say 1961.) is an influential 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.
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Early life
Hejlsberg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and studied engineering at the Technical University of Denmark but did not graduate[link]. Whilst at 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. After the product was sold to Borland, it was marketed as the Turbo Pascal compiler.At Borland
After Borland's takeover, Turbo Pascal became the most commercially successful Pascal compiler ever. As part of the deal that saw Borland take control of Turbo Pascal, Hejlsberg became Chief Engineer at Borland, where 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.At Microsoft
In 1996, Hejlsberg left Borland and joined 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.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.Published Work
- The C# Programming Language, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0321334434 , June 9, 2006
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External links
- [Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg Receives Prestigious Excellence in Programming Award]
- [2001 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award]
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]
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