Head First C#

amming language) C Sharp wordmark.svg multi-paradigm: structured, imperative, object-oriented, event-driven, task-driven, functional, generic, reflective, concurrent Designed by Microsoft Developer Microsoft Appeared in 2000 Stable release 5.0 / August 15, 2012; 2 years ago Typing discipline static, dynamic,[1] strong, safe, nominative, partially inferred Major implementations Visual C#, .NET Framework, Mono, DotGNU Dialects C?, Spec#, Polyphonic C# Influenced by C++,[2] Eiffel, Java,[2] Modula-3, Object Pascal,[3] ML, Icon, Haskell, C?, F#[note 1] Influenced D, Dart,[4] F#, Java,[5] Kotlin, Monkey, Nemerle, Swift,[6] Vala Platform Common Language Infrastructure License CLR is proprietary, Mono compiler is dual GPLv3, MIT/X11 and libraries are GPLv2, DotGNU is dual GPL and LGPLv2 Filename extension(s) .cs C Sharp Programming at Wikibooks C#[note 2] (pronounced as see sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed by Microsoft within its .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270:2006). C# is one of the programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure. C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language.[7] Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 5.0, which was released on August 15, 2012.