> It is thanks to Anders' expert guidance that .NET started out such a remarkably well designed language - literally what Java should have been on every conceivable level
Except that .NET is not a language...
The language Anders invented is called C# and v1.0 looked extremely similar to Java (later versions diverged significantly from Java).
> It is thanks to Anders' expert guidance that .NET started out such a remarkably well designed language - literally what Java should have been on every conceivable level