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I guess they went the theory it's the next letter after C in BCPL as B and C exist.
by protomyth 10y ago
I guess they went the theory it's the next letter after C in BCPL as B and C exist.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoOr just P for parallel. Safe, parallel, asynchronous programming in higher-level language with code generation. As opposite of BCPL and C as you can get.
- noobermin 10y agoThen why is "D" not called "P" ? What happens when we reach L?
- Etheryte 10y agoNo more new programming languages. Can't do it.
- techno_modus 10y agoOne could use another alphabet or writing system
- qznc 10y agoDoes anybody know programming languages called or 𓀀 or 𐎯 or ণ or ဏ or Ꮊ or שׂ or ಠ or 𐦂 or ᛝ or ܟ or ⌨ or ?
- laurent123456 10y agoSeems like Google handles unicode characters, so those would be as good as any (I guess as long as it's a symbol people actually know how to pronounce). Something like Ω-lang or ∞-lang would be nice.
- qznc 10y agoActually, there are already four languages called L. I, N, O, and V are still available. H, T, and W can probably be overwritten without hurting anybody. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/one_letter_proglangs.html http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/one_letter_proglangs.html
- krylon 10y agoIn Germany, we have Umlaute - Ä, Ö, and Ü. Plus ß, but I am not sure if that counts as a letter. But having a programming language named Ä seems worth the effort. :-)
- protomyth 10y agoD is clearly trying to break away from the BCPL > B > C heritage just as C++ didn't merit a new letter. Since D is trying to be more logical, it went with the logical incremental letter.