Where did the C# Programming Language Name Originate

In the late 1980s at Microsoft, there was an attempt at constructing some extensions to the C++ programming language, which were internally named C#. This project failed, was cancelled, and never used. The database used internally by the language required more resources than the hardware that was available at the time could provide.

However, about a decade later when Microsoft again attempted to form a programming language, they recycled the name. This name is now used for one of the most popular programming languages. The name was meant to represent C++++, if you view the # sign as four plus signs.