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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.

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Birth Year
1960 1
Birth Date
1960-12-02 1
Nationality
Danish 1
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C#, Languages
Source Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)
TypeScript, Languages
Source Wikipedia: TypeScript
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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
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1. Wikipedia: Anders Hejlsberg
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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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