Anders joined later as a couple of ex-Borland people kept pinging back on him, he mentions this in a few interviews.

https://behindthetech.libsyn.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-craf...

Thanks, that was a great listen

I know of a Tobias who ended up working as an analyst-therapist before switching to a successful acting career.

I know one who got turned into a hawk and couldn’t turn back.

Animorphs huh. I read a few books a long time back, but then recently read about how the series became quite twisted towards the end. Younger me would probably have enjoyed it.

Yeah, the author killed off most of the characters at the end, which was surprisingly realistic. More than one of the heros (and one of the villains) was a programmer too.

Successful author too. Very supportive, loving wife. Model of a perfect marriage right there, imho.

He got a new start.

He also had a brief foray as a director ...

There are dozens of us

Don't know a Tobias, but I've heard of a Saibot. He was pretty much a noob.

Very two dimensional person as well. Or at least he was 20 years ago; perhaps he's improved himself since.

Didn't he switch to performance art first?

I think he did a few commercials before that - the one about the fire was quite good.

He blued himself later on, so...

the world's first...

A quick search in Norway's bureau of statistics shows that Anders had a big bump between about 1975 and 2000, peaking about 1985, when about 1.5% of boys were named Anders. I believe it was a top ten name that entire period. I don't have stats for Denmark where Hejlsberg is from, but I don't think the name is any rarer there.

There are a lot of developers in that generation.

Tobias is a less popular name overall, but had a much sharper spike around 2000. 1.5% of Norwegian boys born in 2003, the peak year, were named Tobias.

Those guys should be the just entering the workforce about now.

The Spotify office had an Anders of the week.