I feel as though, with C#, Microsoft's brilliance was to get a number of very clever people in a room together (Anders Hejlsberg, Eric Lippert, etc).
Somebody at Microsoft said to themselves, these guys are clearly brilliant, let's see what happens if we hire them all, task them with creating a new object oriented programming language, pay them a tonne of money, and see what happens.
Somebody at Microsoft said to themselves, these guys are clearly brilliant, let's see what happens if we hire them all, task them with creating a new object oriented programming language, pay them a tonne of money, and see what happens.
C# was the result, and it's awesome!