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We had that in 1999 - JScript
I thought jscript was just javascript, but called that because of ✨Trademark Issues✨
C# was originally J++ which was originally Java++ until Sun sued MS.
Of course they sued them.
I supported standard JDK stuff but had lots of Visual Basic and Windows extras.