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Anders Hejlsberg

Software And Its Engineering

Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who wrote the original Turbo Pascal compiler, later became chief architect of Borland's Delphi, and since 2000 has been lead architect of C# at Microsoft, where he also created TypeScript, announced in 2012 as a superset of JavaScript. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1960 1
Birth Date
1960-12-02 1
Nationality
Danish 1
Award
IT Award 2
Connections

In Field

Programming Language Theory, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Anders Hejlsberg

Invented

C#, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)
TypeScript, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: TypeScript
Additional Source Wikipedia: TypeScript

Invented By

Turbo Pascal, Programming Languages
Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): Turbo Pascal
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Nationality

Denmark

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Anders Hejlsberg
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead / Career section
    In 2012 Hejlsberg announced a new Microsoft project, TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript
  • Lead section
    Anders Hejlsberg (; Danish: [ˈhɑjlsˌpɛɐ̯ˀ]; born 2 December 1960) is a Danish software engineer who co-designed several programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi.
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead paragraph
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2. Wikidata: Anders Hejlsberg
Wikidata Q316544, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)
Wikimedia FoundationInvented: C#View the Source
Wikipedia: TypeScript
WikipediaInvented: TypeScriptView the Source
Programming Language Database (PLDB): Turbo Pascal
Invented By: Turbo Pascal, PLDB entry header sentence
Quote, Invented By: Turbo Pascal, PLDB entry header sentence
Turbo Pascal is a compiler created in 1983 by Anders Hejlsberg.
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