From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 14 17:22:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAD2106566C for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:22:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0518E8FC08 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18835 invoked by uid 0); 14 Nov 2010 17:22:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2010 17:22:51 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Joi4yqhmzz6WFgT+NkS+Vb3MBjyJzcMgi+XhAnxiXk2UxRGwlll8/RiR5mNFTE0evLZJTQGrQs8hRaPRY8OMZ9cIilGdm/1LOhOo4PO+gAAmUCyJ2ubg+y5KKWLQBADs; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHgHy-0002ER-2f for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:22:51 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:16:33 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:16:33 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101114171633.GA49894@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h+K92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h+K92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:22:52 -0000 --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 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--