Oh dear! Don't these guys...

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

...know that the successor to the "C" programming language should be
called "P" and not "D"?

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Re: D Programming Language
By: Angus McLeod to All on Tue Jan 02 2007 11:12 am

Oh dear! Don't these guys...

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

...know that the successor to the "C" programming language should be
called "P" and not "D"?

Erm... why's that then?

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Re: D Programming Language
By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Tue Jan 02 2007 04:28 pm

Re: D Programming Language
By: Angus McLeod to All on Tue Jan 02 2007 11:12 am

Oh dear! Don't these guys...

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

...know that the successor to the "C" programming language should be called "P" and not "D"?

Erm... why's that then?

how about Z?
the very last language you will ever need.

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Re: D Programming Language
By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Tue Jan 02 2007 16:28:00

Oh dear! Don't these guys...

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

...know that the successor to the "C" programming language should be called "P" and not "D"?

Erm... why's that then?

First came 'BCPL'. From 'BCPL', Ken Thompson developed 'B', deriving it's name from the first letter of 'BCPL'. When 'B' was enhanced, it was
renamed to the *second* letter of 'BCPL', or 'C'. Obviously, subsequent development would produce the programming language 'P', and finally 'L'.

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Re: D Programming Language
By: Angus McLeod to Deuce on Tue Jan 02 2007 09:39 pm

...know that the successor to the "C" programming language should be called "P" and not "D"?

Erm... why's that then?

First came 'BCPL'. From 'BCPL', Ken Thompson developed 'B', deriving it's name from the first letter of 'BCPL'. When 'B' was enhanced, it was
renamed to the *second* letter of 'BCPL', or 'C'. Obviously, subsequent development would produce the programming language 'P', and finally 'L'.

I don't belive that that rationalization was ever verified... DMR said "After creating the type system, the associated syntax, and the compiler for the new language, I felt that it deserved a new name; NB seemed insufficiently distinctive. I decided to follow the single-letter style and called it C, leaving open the question whether the name represented a progression through the alphabet or through the letters in BCPL." http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

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Re: D Programming Language
By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Tue Jan 02 2007 11:31 pm

Re: D Programming Language
By: Angus McLeod to Deuce on Tue Jan 02 2007 09:39 pm

...know that the successor to the "C" programming language should b called "P" and not "D"?

Erm... why's that then?

First came 'BCPL'. From 'BCPL', Ken Thompson developed 'B', deriving it' name from the first letter of 'BCPL'. When 'B' was enhanced, it was renamed to the *second* letter of 'BCPL', or 'C'. Obviously, subsequent development would produce the programming language 'P', and finally 'L'.

I don't belive that that rationalization was ever verified... DMR said "Afte creating the type system, the associated syntax, and the compiler for the ne language, I felt that it deserved a new name; NB seemed insufficiently distinctive. I decided to follow the single-letter style and called it C, leaving open the question whether the name represented a progression through the alphabet or through the letters in BCPL." http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

Still, D is a stupid name for a programming language. :-)

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Re: D Programming Language
By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Tue Jan 02 2007 23:31:00

I don't belive that that rationalization was ever verified...

I choose to believe it.
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Re: D Programming Language
By: Angus McLeod to Deuce on Wed Jan 03 2007 10:09 am

I don't belive that that rationalization was ever verified...

I choose to believe it.

Also, 'D' is ambiguous since 'C'++ == 'D'

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Re: D Programming Language
By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Wed Jan 03 2007 05:39 pm

Also, 'D' is ambiguous since 'C'++ == 'D'

Guess not... ++'C' == 'D' though.

Hrmph.

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Angus McLeod wrote:

Oh dear! Don't these guys...

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

...know that the successor to the "C" programming language should be
called "P" and not "D"?

i'm a coding n00b, explain why please? :)

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Angus McLeod wrote:

First came 'BCPL'. From 'BCPL', Ken Thompson developed 'B', deriving it's name from the first letter of 'BCPL'. When 'B' was enhanced, it was
renamed to the *second* letter of 'BCPL', or 'C'. Obviously, subsequent development would produce the programming language 'P', and finally 'L'.

wow i forgot all about martin richards and bcpl. good one dude.

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