Talk:Anders Hejlsberg

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Someone add a list of his work[edit]

Please add a list of the programing languages he developed.

Untitled[edit]

As far as I remember, he did not study at the university which became the Technical University of Denmark, but he studied at the Danish Engineering Academia (Dansk Ingeniørakademi, DIA), which later merged with TUD. I think it is not correct to say that he studied at TUD, it should be changed to DIA, with an explanation of what DIA is. DIA graduates were bachelors. Dybdahl 13:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube links[edit]

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 05:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Niels Jensen?[edit]

I noticed there is a phrase "for all those years, Niels Jensen had successfully handled the relationship between Borland and Polydata", but who is Niels Jensen? There is no mention of this name at other places in this article at all? And it is added by an IP. -Cyferz (talk) 21:47, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that too. It was actually added "13:45, 8 November 2006 DominicHyland". The IP just put an "n" after the last name of Niels, but "DominicHyland" added that part. Like you, I wonder who Niels Jensen is. He should have been mentioned before this part already, but he never was. In fact, he is not mentioned anywhere else in this article. We'd need at least some reference about this "Niels Jensen". If not, I think it should be removed. I have added a "Citation needed". 68.200.239.84 (talk) 23:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Niels Jensen is one of the original co-founders of Borland International and JPI (also a compiler company). That alone makes him notable. The problem here is that Wikipedia needs an article on him and it doesn't yet have one. It does not need to remove the few references that already exist. As part of your Wikipedia education, I think that you would find it beneficial to do soem research on him and create an article. -- Derek Ross | Talk 00:39, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, I have done a lot of research and created a lot of articles here on Wikipedia, under my "real" username. I just made an observation here. I am sorry I did not have enough interest in Niels Jensen to do the research and create an article. But that is the way Wikipedia works. Someone mentions something that seems "off". Then someone else with the interest, information, time, and so on, fixes it. You know as well as I do that everyone can edit Wikipedia and that there are lots of people who feel the need to insert their own name or someone they know in an article. I thought maybe that was the case here too, but I was not interested enough in the topic to do my own research. So I did the "best" I could do, which was to add a "citation needed" so that people more interested and with more knowledge on this topic might see it. In fact, since you know a lot more about Niels Jensen than Cyferz or me, why don't you replace my "citation needed" with an actual citation? That might be beneficial to Wikipedia... 68.200.239.84 (talk) 17:36, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I've created a fair few WP articles too over the last 7 years. In fact I created the Anders Hejlsberg article. I just thought that someone else might like doing the others. Someone has risen to the occasion with Kahn, but not with Jensen so far. In any case I will have a look for a citation since nobody else seems to be willing to do so. -- Derek Ross | Talk 18:10, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation of his last name[edit]

I am translating this article into Thai language, but I am not sure how to pronounce Hejlsberg. The best reference I can find is the Japanese version, which spell it like Hels-berg. Sorry if this is not relevant to the article directly but I think I got the best chance to get the answer here. --Biglobster (talk) 07:56, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Having seen many of his talks and videos online, he seems to pronounce his last name as /ˈhaɪl.zbɜːrɡ/ HILE-zberg when speaking English. Here are some examples from YouTube of him introducing himself:

I'm not sure if videos can be used as sources for pronunciation on Wikipedia though. Neme12 (talk) 23:07, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Open-Source Developers Info[edit]

https://github.com/ahejlsberg

It would be great, if there is link to GitHub/GitLab account and OpenHub account for each notable developer on Wikipedia. It would be motivation for students and it allows to follow mind of such person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.102.8.6 (talk) 07:40, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this would be useful. Wikidata (Q316544) already stores his GitHub username; as an illustration, here it's retrieved directly from there: ahejlsberg. Though I'm not sure what the proper/standard way of showing this in an infobox would be and whether it's even appropriate to show links to a living person's personal accounts or social media profiles on Wikipedia like this. (Is there any policy or guideline regarding this?) Neme12 (talk) 00:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Marriage[edit]

In April 2022 (diff), an anonymous user added information about Anders' supposed marriage to Liz Hejlsberg in 1994 without any source for this claim.

I tried searching online for any info on Anders Hejlsberg spouse, marriage or the name Liz Hejlsberg, but couldn't find anything except for this Instagram post on an Instagram account that looks like it belongs to him. The post is dated to July 17, 2019 and celebrates 25 years of his marriage. It doesn't mention the name of the spouse, but the person next to Anders in the picture is tagged as miss_tangerine1, whose account has the full name "Liz Hejlsberg". 25 years (the supposed length of the marriage at that point in time) prior to the date of the post (July 17, 2019) would be in the year 1994. This would support both of the claims for the name of the spouse and the marriage year, but I'm not sure if this would be considered a valid source of such information for a few reasons:

Are social media posts on personal accounts considered valid sources in general?
Are they considered valid sources even if there's no reliable source linking to the social media account, in order to have some confidence that the social media account is actually the personal account of the person is question, and not an unrelated third party who used the same name for the account and posted pictures of someone who either looks like Anders or pictures of Anders himself? In this case, while it certainly looks plausible and I'd say likely that the account indeed belongs to Anders, there's no certainty that it's actually him.
The post never actually mentions the date or year of marriage. We'd be presuming that by subtracting 25 years from the publication date of the post. This seems like original research, which is inappropriate for Wikipedia.

Given all the above, should the claim above the spouse and year of marriage be removed? For now, I'm tagging it with {{citation needed}}. Neme12 (talk) 20:08, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

When looking up the name "Liz Hejlsberg", I also found pages on some people searching websites of a person named "Elizabeth L Hejlsberg" who is supposedly married to Anders Hejlsberg. The corresponding page for Anders on these websites then also claims that he's married to Elizabeth L Hejlsberg:

https://www.searchpeoplefree.com/find/elizabeth-l-hejlsberg/134K1xSEh399
https://www.searchpeoplefree.com/find/anders-hejlsberg/288MuhpvwUeq

https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/elizabeth-hejlsberg_id_G-2582095534735650619
https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/anders-hejlsberg_id_G6833278581796326254

Although I have no idea where these websites get their information from and I'm guessing they can't be considered reliable sources and used as sources here? Neme12 (talk) 21:30, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]