what is c#

C# (pronounced "see sharp") is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing imperative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed by Microsoft within the .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270). C# is one of the programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure.
C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language.[3] Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg, the designer of Borland's Turbo Pascal, who has said that its object-oriented syntax is based on C++ and other languages.[4] James Gosling, who created the Java programming language in 1994, called it an 'imitation' of that language.[5] The most recent version is C# 3.0, which was released in conjunction with the .NET Framework 3.5 in 2007. The next proposed version, 4.0, is in development.