C# is a general-purpose high-level programming language supporting multiple paradigms. C# encompasses static … See more

The Ecma standard lists these design goals for C#:
• The language is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language.
• The language, and implementa… See more

During the development of the .NET Framework, the class libraries were originally written using a managed code compiler system named Simple Managed C (SMC). In January 1999, Anders Hejlsberg formed a te… See more

The core syntax of the C# language is similar to that of other C-style languages such as C, C++ and Java, particularly:
• Semicolons are used to denote the end of a statement.
• Curly brackets are used to group state… See more

Some notable features of C# that distinguish it from C, C++, and Java where noted, are:
By design, C# is the programming language that most directly reflects the underlying … See more

C# has a unified type system. This unified type system is called Common Type System (CTS).
A unified type system implies that all types, including primitives such as integers, are subclasse… See more