[tialaramex]

It's tricky to compare. Anders is involved in a bunch of important stuff, but it's not as though it's all successes either. He's certainly important, but I don't know how to compare "track records" on "innovation" because that's so vague.

One of his projects at Microsoft was J++ which is basically own-brand Java. Doubtless that's great material for learning to design C# but nobody is going to claim J++ was a success.

[pjmlp]

Only because Sun's lawsuit, several C# features were already present in J++ as the extensions that caused the lawsuit in first place.

VM integration with host OS, J/Direct (P/Invoke), events, COM integration, WFC (Windows Forms).