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He certainly knows how to create programming languages that last.

He also did Delphi, and you can actually see quite a bit of it in the original design of C#.

Even more so when you look at stuff like WinForms - someone coming from VCL would see many familiar things.

I had the opportunity to hear him speak about language design at an MS Build conference and was very nearly actually fanboying; my coworkers were more than a little bemused.