Anders Hejlsberg

Name: Anders Hejlsberg

Born: December 1960, in Copenhagen, Denmark

Computer-related contributions

• Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools.
• He was the author of Turbo Pascal, the chief architect of Delphi, and currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C#.

Significant publications

• The C# Programming Language, Second Edition.
• The C# Programming Language, Third Edition.
• C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series).

Honors and awards

• Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award (2001).