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Anders Hejlsberg

1960–

Microsoft technical fellow · creator of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, TypeScript

Gave us

Turbo Pascal (the speed of compilation that defined an era). Delphi. C#. TypeScript.

The story

A career of designing widely-used programming languages, decade after decade. TypeScript started as an internal Microsoft project in 2010; ten years later it was eating JavaScript's lunch.

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Across the field

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