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by romwell 2929 days ago
>Hejlsberg probably is completely in a class of his own as a designer and architect/implementor of innovative spins on existing languages though.

Arhictect/implementor of IDE's (TurboPascal, Delphi, VS - all immensely influential).

If you haven't had the joy of programming in Delphi, you'll feel at home if you ever used VS/C#.. in Delphi 2.0 of the mid-90's.