C-Sharp(C#) (pronounced C Sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses functional, imperative, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.C# (pronounced C Sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses functional, imperative, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed by Microsoft as part of the .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by ECMA (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270). C# is one of the 44 programming languages supported by the .NET Framework's Common Language Runtime. C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Its development team is lead by Anders Hejlsberg, the designer of Borland's Object Pascal language. It has an object-oriented syntax based on C++ and is heavily influenced by Java. It was initially named Cool, which stood for "C like Object Oriented Language." However, in July 2000, when Microsoft made the project public, the name of the programming language was given as C#. The most recent version of the language is 3.0 which was released in conjunction with the .NET Framework 3.5 in 2007. The next proposed version, 4.0, is in development.