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For this post I have done an internet trail where I looked up c# on wikipedia and ended up in a separate page, another , another AND another -sounds a bit confusing right? Well its not so let me break it down.
Firstly I searched c# on wikipedia -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language) -. Here is what I found: C#(pronounced C sharp) is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed around 2000 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#'s development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 7.3, which was released in 2018 alongside Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.2.
Secondly, now that I know what c# is defined as, I want to know more about the man in charge - Anders Hejlsberg-. I pressed a link to him on wikipedia and got to here :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg. Here is the basic information I found on him: Anders Hejlsberg ( born 2 December 1960) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful 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.
Thirdly, now I know what c# is and about its developer, I wanted to know more about Microsoft. The company Anders Hejlsberg works for. Here is the link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft. Here is what I found out: Microsoft Corporation ( abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. The word "Microsoft" is a portmanteau of "microcomputer" and "software".
Finally, for my fourth and final web trail link, I wanted to know more about internet explorer. I use it every day and never even knew who set it up let alone any information on it. So, heres a link I used to gather information on Internet explorer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer. Heres the information I found: Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in service packs, and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. The browser is discontinued, but still maintained.
Internet Explorer was one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share by 2003. This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as Android and iOS that do not run Internet Explorer.
I hope you found this information as interesting as I did. I hope to explore more into this as c# is a program we will use a lot this year and its important to see its origins.
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