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C#, Turbo Pascal, C++, PHP...and the LEGO Brick: Denmark's Leading Exports

Anders Hejlsberg, Bjarne Stroustrup, Rasmus Lerdorf..and colored plastic bricks made with Acrylonitrile Butadine Styrene
By Jeremy Geelan
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January 28, 2008 01:45 AM EST
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Google's main page today celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic LEGO brick. Today’s LEGO bricks still fit bricks from 1958, but more importantly it is one of Denmark's best-known exports, along with programming language creators Anders Hejlsberg, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Rasmus Lerdorf, who between them created C#, Turbo Pascal, C++, and PHP.

The LEGO Group with its headquarters in Billund, Denmark, is the fifth largest toy manufacturer in the world in terms of sales. But in the i-Technology world the most famous exports are not plastic bricks but mercury-bright minds - or, rather, the output of same.

Lerdorf, born in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland is Danish-Greenlandic to be precise, while Hejlsberg and Stroustrup were born in Copenhagen and Aarhus, respectively.

The LEGO brick was born in Billund. And the rest is history!

Published January 28, 2008 – Reads 8,913
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Expo series, of the International Virtualization Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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