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Anders Hejlsberg, Bjarne Stroustrup, Rasmus Lerdorf..and colored plastic bricks made with Acrylonitrile Butadine Styrene

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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!

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