1. Introduction
The chief merit of language is clearness.
High thoughts must have high language.
Our life is frittered away with detail. … Simplify, simplify.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
OBJECTIVES
In this chapter you’ll learn:
The history of the Visual C# programming language.
Some basics of object technology.
The history of the UML—the industry-standard object-oriented system modeling language.
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