C# seen in a historic perspective

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Introduction to C# - slide 2 : 43

C# seen in a historic perspective

C# has been inspired by earlier object-oriented programming languages

Simula (1967)
- The very first object-oriented programming language
C++ (1983)
- The first object-oriented programming language in the C family of languages
Java (1995)
- Sun's object-oriented programming language
C# (2001)
- Microsoft's object-oriented programming language

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