• @lordnikon@lemmy.world
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    733 months ago

    Dennis Richie is a personal hero of mine and i go out of my way to buy a cake every September 9th to celebrate his contributions to the world. It’s a real shame his passing was overshadowed at the time.

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    533 months ago

    Got me confused on which goat have such interesting name, turn out it’s GOAT not goat.

  • palordrolap
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    323 months ago

    Should have gone for something like “Dennis Richie Advanced Computing University Lab Annex.”

    Parses weird, but look at that acronym.

    • @intelisense@lemm.ee
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      223 months ago

      C# is much more recent than C/BCPL etc. What’s interesting, though, is how many of C these more modern languages are inspired by C. C is also very much still in use!

      • @LeFantome@programming.dev
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        113 months ago

        The name C++ is an inside joke as ++ is the C language increment operator, meant to imply that C++ is an improvement on C.

        I have heard several times that the name C# was meant to look like the ++ had been added again to the name C++. The syntax of C# was chosen to be familiar to programmers that knew C++.

        If we are saying old languages use letters for names and that newer ones use words, it is worth noting that C# was also heavily inspired by Java, which came first. Both Java and JavaScript are from 1995 ( iolder than C# ).

        In the grand scheme, Go is not much newer than C#. Go is from 2009 and C# is from 2000. That might seem like a lot but Go was intended as an alternative to C which is from 1972.

        C got its name as a progression over B, which started the whole single letter thing, but C syntax was chosen to look like ALGOL ( 1958 ). So we have to blame ALGOL for the look of C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, and even Rust.

        Two of the oldest languages as FORTRAN and Lisp. Language names were often abbreviations ( such as FORmula TRANslation for FORTRAN ). Lisp was originally LISP ( list processing ) but the name Lisp, from 1960, fits right in with Go and Rust I would say.

        The trend is certainly towards more whimsical names though. An early name for C was NB which stood for “New B”. If it were named like we do today, maybe it would have been called “Newbie” or some synonym of that. I kind of like Punk.

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    -253 months ago

    Why would you name a non American lab after a American? It feels a bit weird.

    • @t0mri@lemmy.mlOP
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      273 months ago

      Tell me when youre so passionate about something would you ignore the goat in your domain just because that person is not from the same country as you?