And why is that? Many parallels can be made with C++/C/C#. I wouldn`t go that far and call it clueless.

When someone lists "C/C++/C#" (not "Java/C#" or "C/C++/D" or "C/ObjC/C++") this typically means two things: - He's judging language proximity by their name instead of their traits. - He doesn't know other languages (often: his experience is limited to MS platform).

If someone isn't judging languages by name and have broad sight, he would recognize that C# falls into entirely different bucket (bytecode virtual machine, mandatory garbage collection, managed execution, inseparable class library) than any of C, D, C++, ObjC, ooc.