Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest it was a computer language?
Oh, if you say C is named as being the successor to some form of B, then R (as you mentioned) is the successor by some form of backwards reasoning to S as it started as not quite S or at least not as expensive. FWIW, T was already in use as a dialect of Scheme which was a dialect of LISP ... And I was there when we were naming C++ as a slightly improved and incremented C. Yes, D was considered as well as odd names like Add-One-To-C. Oddly C# was not considered. 😊 So, Ada. First female programmer, at least on paper? A Programming Language? APL. The endless list goes on. I looked at one such list below and I thought I had learned quite a few but apparently a small fraction of what was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages I think the name is the least important aspect of a computer language. -----Original Message----- From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avigross=verizon....@python.org> On Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 7:02 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: the python name On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:41:36 +0000, "Schachner, Joseph" <joseph.schach...@teledyne.com> declaimed the following: >The name "Python" may not make sense, but what sense does the name Java make, >or even C (unless you know that it was the successor to B), or Haskell or >Pascal or even BASIC? Or Caml or Kotlin or Scratch? Or Oberon or R? Or >Smalltalk, or SNOBOL? > Which was a derivative of BCPL (so one could claim a successor of C should be named P), ?, mathematician, beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code. R? maybe a subtle implication to be better/in-front-of S. SNOBOL is the ugly one, since the SN come from "string", and the BO from the middle of "symbolic". -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
