What is "c sharp"

n. (context music English) A musical pitch, the note C♯. n. An object-oriented programming language named (unsupported: C sharp).

C# (pronounced as see sharp) 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. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 6.0 which was released in 2015.