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> Anders Hejlsberg was the author of the best Pascal implementation, greatly enhancing Pascal until he was seduced by Microsoft and helped start the evil that is .NET and C#.

Some historical correction needed.

Many of the improvements in Turbo Pascal 4.0 onwards came from UCSD Pascal and Apple's Object Pascal, initially, and then followed up on interoperability with C++ for Borland products.

He wasn't seduced by Microsoft, rather by former Borland employees working at Microsoft wanting to refer him (those referral bonus), which he continuous refused until himself got pissed off with Borland's management.

"Anders Hejlsberg: A craftsman of computer language" interview

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...