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Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who is best known for creating the C# programming language and the TypeScript language. He is also a co-architect of the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which is the foundation for the .NET Framework.

Hejlsberg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and studied computer science at the Technical University of Denmark. After graduating in 1982, he went on to work for Borland, where he created Turbo Pascal, a popular programming language for the PC.

In 1988, Hejlsberg joined Microsoft, where he led the development of C#. C# is a general-purpose programming language that is used for a wide variety of applications, including web development, desktop applications, and mobile apps. C# is one of the most popular programming languages in the world, and it is used by millions of developers around the world.

Hejlsberg also played a key role in the development of TypeScript, a language that is designed to be a superset of JavaScript. TypeScript is used to add type annotations to JavaScript code, which can help to prevent errors and make code more maintainable.

Hejlsberg has received numerous awards for his contributions to computer science, including the Microsoft Technical Excellence Award (1990), the Microsoft Technical Fellow Award (1997), and the ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2009). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Hejlsberg is currently the Technical Fellow and lead of the CoreCLR team at Microsoft. He is also the author of several books on programming, including "The C# Programming Language" (2000) and "The TypeScript Language" (2012).