Anders Hejlsberg

Anders Hejlsberg (* December 1960 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish programmer and one of the principal software architect in the DOS / Windows technology sector. Since 1996 he works for the U.S. software company Microsoft.

Between 1980 and 1982, Hejlsberg developed a Pascal programming system, the editor, compiler and debugger in a united program. At first he marketed this Pascal by his own company. 1983, was licensed by the company Borland, who brought the program as Turbo Pascal on the market.

The development system set standards that Pascal made ​​by the academic outsider to one of three main application programming languages ​​( in addition to C and BASIC) and helped Borland for promotion to the position of the main development software maker next to Microsoft.

Hejlsberg was chief designer of Borland and drew responsible for ensuring that Turbo Pascal remained on the cutting edge. For example, in 1990 the paradigms of object-oriented programming in Turbo Pascal 5.5 were integrated. In 1991, Microsoft Windows made ​​its triumphant, and Microsoft Visual Basic used the component-based " point-and -click" programming of GUIs, recognized Hejlsberg that the conventional software development was not only efficient means of code and keyboard on Windows, and he took over the lead in the development of Turbo Pascal to Delphi, which is still widespread today.

In 1996, Hejlsberg at Microsoft, where he was the head of the software architecture. Under his direction, the application of the Basic Office applications has been consolidated into VBA. He is one of the co - "inventor" of. NET scheme and the chief developer of the programming languages ​​C # and Typescript.

  • Person (Microsoft)
  • Software Developer
  • Dane
  • Born in 1960
  • Man
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