On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:00:35AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > > ... D is already another programming language ... > > It wasn't back then :)
It is now, though, so it's a little late. So sorry. > > > I don't know what this P has to do with it. > > You have revealed yourself as a newbie :) No -- I've revealed myself as someone who doesn't care nearly as much about C++ as about C. > > In the beginning there was CPL, the "Combined Programming Language." > It was large enough to be infeasible to implement using then-current > technologies, so the "Bootstrap Combined Programming Language" (BCPL) > was invented, with the intent that the first CPL compiler would be > written in BCPL. > > CPL never amounted to much -- I don't know whether it was ever > implemented at all -- but BCPL developed a following. Someone > (at Bell Labs?) produced a derivative called B, from which a few > researchers at Murray Hill derived C. Thus the question: should > the next language in the series be named D (next alphabetically) > or P (next letter of BCPL)? . . . and there was a flamewar over it, blah blah blah, and finally it was C++. Okay. Good historical reference. Thanks. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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