Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:16:33 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) Message-ID: <20101114171633.GA49894@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h%2BK92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h%2BK92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:00:35AM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > > ... D is already another programming language ... >=20 > It wasn't back then :) It is now, though, so it's a little late. So sorry. >=20 > > I don't know what this P has to do with it. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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)? =2E . . and there was a flamewar over it, blah blah blah, and finally it was C++. Okay. Good historical reference. Thanks. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzgGXEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWtJgCgxWoqPqcrvqo8EgxVgy/uwDxf dAgAn2ykUR6XS8dMIWIiGyepkcMozYr6 =Ra6y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW--
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