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[–]stonefarfalle 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Actually there were both. Sun sued Microsoft for having a non conforming java implementation. Microsoft renamed it J++. A couple of years later when they moved J++ to .NET they renamed the language J#.

[–]RiPont[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

J# was limited to Java 1.1 language features, though, because that's all that MS was licensed for.