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Anders Hejlsberg

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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/

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Birth Year
1960 1
Birth Date
1960-12-02 1
Nationality
Danish 1
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C#, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)
TypeScript, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: TypeScript
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, nationality there.
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1. Wikipedia: Anders Hejlsberg
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    In 2012 Hejlsberg announced a new Microsoft project, TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript
  • Lead section
    Anders Hejlsberg (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. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and core developer on TypeScript.
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Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)
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