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# Section 1. What is C#?
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## The history of C#
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**Microsoft C#**
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* Orignal name: "C-like Object Oriented Language"
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* Announsed at July 2000 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference along with the .NET Framework
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* Mono is the open-source competitor to C#
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**C#'s Original Specification Document**
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* Intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented language
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* Support software engineering principles:
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* strong type checking
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* array bounds checking
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* detection of attempts to use uninitialized variables
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* auto garbage collection
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* Suitable for deployment in distributed environments
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* High portability (Software can be compiled and linked from source code for different operating systems and processors)
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* Suitable for writing applications for both **hosted** (large OS) and **embedded** systems (small functions)
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* C# has low memory and processing power consumption, but not good as C or assembly
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## C#, the .NET Framework and runtime
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**.NET Framework**
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* a software framework
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