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It's funny, the languages I ended up using the most throughout the years are Delphi, C# and most recently Typescript (where Anders is also a lead architect). And my very first lines of code could very well have been written in Turbo Pascal (also by him), if I remember correctly.

As an aside, although common, I dislike the term "poaching" when it comes to hiring. It's negative connotations are inescapable, but also inappropriate when talking about hiring.

Actually Borland's management helped quite a bit believing some Anders interviews.

I’ve been using Delphi before and it looks like a grown/better Pascal. C# is a c-family language which seems weird right after the switch, however you start appreciate C syntax a bit later.

I think C# was an attempt to design MS Java which is better than Java

Your both right, C# was MS Java-but-better designed by the designer of Delphi, who had recently (perhaps specifically for that project) been hired by MS.

The little ugly fact is that Anders was also involved in the Microsoft Java effort.