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C#

C Sharp
Object-Oriented Language

C# is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language developed by Microsoft, first widely distributed in July 2000, encompassing structured, imperative, object-oriented, event-driven, task-driven, functional, generic, reflective and concurrent styles. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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First Released
2000 1
Paradigm
Multi-paradigm: structured, imperative, object-oriented, event-driven, task-driven, functional, generic, reflective, concurrent. 1
Significance
Became an international standard (Ecma ECMA-334 in 2002; ISO/IEC 23270 in 2003) and the flagship language of Microsoft's .NET platform. Hejlsberg said in July 2000 that C# is not a Java clone and is much closer to C++ in its design. 1
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.NET, Frameworks

.NET is a cross-platform managed framework whose primary language is C#, developed mainly by Microsoft via the .NET Foundation.

ASP.NET, Frameworks

ASP.NET is written in .NET languages, primarily C#.

Blazor, Frameworks

Blazor is written in C#.

ML.NET, Frameworks

Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML.NET: "ML.NET is a free software machine learning library for the C# and F# programming languages."

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Source Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)

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Source Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)

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Source Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)
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    in July 2000, Hejlsberg said that C# is not a Java clone and is much closer to C++ in its design
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  • Invented By: Anders Hejlsberg
  • In Field: Software Engineering
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