> "Hejlsberg: First of all, C# is not a Java clone. ... we looked at lots of languages, we looked at Java"

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100109195800/http://windowsdev...

You can just state the author of the language is lying and you somehow know better. You don't even justify why "they don't want to acknoweldge it" - even with Hejlsberg there acknowledging taking ideas from Java - or explain why C# had those differences mentioned in the rest of that interview, or why Microsoft separately wrote their own Java implementation like Visual J++ if C# was just "their Java".