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	C# in Detail	Jon Jagger
	C#, The Basics	Vijay Mukhi, Sandeep Shanbhag, Sonal Mukhi
	C# Language Specification	ECMA
	Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#	by Bruno R. Preiss
	Dissecting a C# Application - Inside SharpDevelop	by Christian Holm, Mike Krüger, Bernhard Spuida

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C# is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of their .NET initiative, and later approved as a standard by ECMA and ISO. C# has a procedural, object-oriented syntax based on C++ that includes aspects of several other programming languages (most notably Delphi and Java) with a particular emphasis on simplification (fewer symbolic requirements than C++, fewer declarative requirements than Java [citation needed]).

C# is, in some senses, the programming language which most directly reflects the underlying Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). It was designed specifically to take advantage of the features that the CLI provides. Most of C#'s intrinsic types correspond to value-types implemented by the CLI framework. However, the C# language specification does not state the code generation requirements of the compiler: that is, it does not state that a C# compiler must target a Common Language Runtime (CLR), or generate Common Intermediate Language (CIL), or generate any other specific format. Theoretically, a C# compiler could generate machine code like traditional compilers of C++ or FORTRAN. In practice, all existing C# implementations target CLI.