From Wikipedia..."C# is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed by Microsoft within its .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270:2006). C# is one of the programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure. C# is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language.[9] Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 6.0, which was released on July 20, 2015"

From Ross...C# is a useful modern mainstream application development language in common use with the Microsoft .net framework. Application development in C# involves the use of the Visual Studio development environment giving the developer access to the most modern tools and large libraries of existing prebuild assemblies.