C sharp

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The correct title of this article is C#. The substitution or omission of a # sign is due to technical restrictions.

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C sharp (C#)

1. C# is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft Corporation as part of their .NET initiative in response to the success of Sun Microsystems' Java programming language. C# source code—as well as those of other .NET languages—is compiled into an intermediate byte code called MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Langauge. C# is primarily derived from the C, C++, and Java programming languages with some features of Microsoft's Visual Basic in the mix. (Courtesy CSharp-Online.NET)