Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:32:04PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > should the one-leter name for 'c++' be 'd' or 'p'? > > (nobody could decide/agree, which *IS* why it is 'c++' > > to this day) > > ... D is already another programming language ...
It wasn't back then :) > I don't know what this P has to do with it. You have revealed yourself as a newbie :) 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)? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
