Evolution and characteristics

Evolution and characteristics

Evolution and History of C#

The development of the .NET Framework employed class libraries written using a managed code compiler system called Simple Managed C (SMC). In January 1999, Anders Hejlsberg developed a new language called Cool, or “C-like Object Oriented Language”. Due to trademark reasons, the language had been renamed to C#, and the class libraries and ASP.NET runtime had also been ported to C#.

C# 2.0 was released in November 2005 and with the different implementations of generics C# vastly differed with Java. C# also added features which differentiated it with Java like the LINQ extensions with C# 3.0 with lambda expressions support, extension methods and anonymous types.

Characteristics of C#

C# provides various characteristics,which are

Simple: It does not supports –>, and pointers. C# treats inter and Boolean as two different data types .

Consistent: C# supports only one integer type with no limitation of range.

Inter-operability: C# provides the facility to a program to call out any native API. .

Modern: C# contains features as that in modern programming language like automatic garbage collection, sound security model and a rich intrinsic model for error handling.

Object Oriented: C# is an modern object oriented programming language supporting encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. .

Type Safe: C# incorporates type safe measures like dynamically allocated objects and arrays are initialised to zero, not allowing unsafe casts and overflow check during the arithmetic operations.

Versionable: C# supports versioning of applications developed using it so that on different versions of same application are available for usage.