a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, the originator of Java, called C# an "imitation" of Java Gosling further said that "[C# is] sort of Java with reliability, productivity and security deleted."[16][17] Klaus Kreft and Angelika Langer (authors of a C++ streams book) stated in a blog post that "Java and C# are almost identical programming languages. Boring repetition that lacks innovation,"[18] "Hardly anybody will claim that Java or C# are revolutionary programming languages that changed the way we write programs," and "C# borrowed a lot from Java - and vice versa. Now that C# supports boxing and unboxing, we ll have a very similar feature in Java."[19] In July 2000, Anders Hejlsberg said that C# is "not a Java clone" and is "much closer to C++" in its-a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, the originator of Java, called C# an "imitation" of Java　Gosling further said that "[C# is] sort of Java with reliability, productivity and security deleted."[16][17] Klaus Kreft and Angelika Langer (authors of a C++ streams book) stated in a blog post that "Java and C# are almost identical programming languages. Boring repetition that lacks innovation,"[18] "Hardly anybody will claim that Java or C# are revolutionary programming languages that changed the way we write programs," and "C# borrowed a lot from Java - and vice versa. Now that C# supports boxing and unboxing, we ll have a very similar feature in Java."[19] In July 2000, Anders Hejlsberg said that C# is "not a Java clone" and is "much closer to C++" in its