Is D better than C?

[Lester T. Linpord]

I think before C came A and B.

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

 

[Jan Engelhardt]

I think before C came A and B.

B, yes. Whether a programming language "A" existed... I am not sure.

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

Replace D with C++ and ask yourself.



Jan Engelhardt
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[jacob navia]

I think before C came A and B.

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

Then the BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS obviously Z !!

(Z++ is forbidden -

 

[Thomas Stegen CES2000]

B, yes. Whether a programming language "A" existed... I am not sure.




Replace D with C++ and ask yourself.

The problem with C++ is that you only actually get to use the
value of C.

 

[Jan Engelhardt]

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

Then the BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS obviously Z !!

(Z++ is forbidden -

'[' is gold then.



Jan Engelhardt
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[Alan Balmer]

I think before C came A and B.

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

Walter Bright thinks it is.

 

[Randy Howard]

Walter Bright thinks it is.

And he has an article in the latest DDJ to prove it.

 

[Arjan Kenter]

I think before C came A and B.

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

Actually, there was no language A, at least not in C's ancestry. Before
C came indeed B, but it developed out of BCPL, which in turn was a
simplification of CPL.

You can read all about it at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/alan-on-bcpl.html
and a page it references: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-histories.html ,
by DMR himself. The latter has a PostScript document on the history of C.
There have been various proposed heirs to C's throne, the best known of
them is C++. I won't get into the discussion of which is 'the best'.

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Famous last words: Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

B, yes. Whether a programming language "A" existed... I am not sure.

A Programming Language

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?A+Programming+Language

 

[nrk]

Then the BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS obviously Z !!

(Z++ is forbidden -

'[' is gold then.

I'll agree only if you ascii nicely

-nrk.

 

[Kenneth Brody]

A Programming Language

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?A+Programming+Language

"A Programming Language" is not a programming language called "A".
It's "APL".

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[Jan Engelhardt]

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

Then the BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS obviously Z !!

(Z++ is forbidden -

'[' is gold then.

I'll agree only if you ascii nicely

Did not I?

 

[CBFalconer]

The problem with C++ is that you only actually get to use the
value of C.

In the beginning there was chaos.
On the first day the supreme hacker made Assembly
On the second day the supreme hacker made BCPL
On the third day the supreme hacker made Pascal
On the fourth day the supreme hacker rested, and it was good.
On the fifth day the supreme hacker made C
On the sixth day the supreme hacker made C++
On the seventh day there was chaos.

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

"A Programming Language" is not a programming language called "A".
It's "APL".

Ken Thompson's B Programming Language was a pun on APL.
Dennis Ritchie's C Programming Language is a pun on B.
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Programming language is a pun on C.

Unfortunately, it appears that you don't share their sense of humor.

 

[Mark Brader]

Robert Tisdale:

Ken Thompson's B Programming Language was a pun on APL.

Er, no. It was based on the language being a simplified BCPL and
perhaps, depending on which source you believe, on his wife's initial.

 

[Keith Thompson]

I think before C came A and B.

So D must be the best of the 4 programming languages ?

There have been a number of programming languages called "D".
None of them are topical here.

 

[Bjarne Stroustrup]

Ken Thompson's B Programming Language was a pun on APL.
Dennis Ritchie's C Programming Language is a pun on B.
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Programming language is a pun on C.

Not quite: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#name

-- Bjarne Stroustrup; http://www.research.att.com/~bs

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Not quite: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#name

-- Bjarne Stroustrup; http://www.research.att.com/~bs

Thanks Bjarne.

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Not quite: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#name

Or was it possible that you knew a guy named Seymour Moore? (I finally
got to say that.)

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Then the BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS obviously Z !!

(Z++ is forbidden -

Bah. Anglosaxons. Ö will be the greatest programming language ever.