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Yes, compatibility is at least 80% of the deal with C. The "C" in C stands for compatible.
by colonwqbang 6y ago
Yes, compatibility is at least 80% of the deal with C. The "C" in C stands for compatible.
- pjmlp 6y agoAnd me thinking that C follows B in the US English alphabet.
- smcl 6y agoI read that it was so named because C follows B in "BCPL"
- pjmlp 6y ago> 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.co/who/dmr/chist.html http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html
- nix23 6y agoB stands for before C
- adamzegelin 6y ago> The "C" in C stands for compatible. Source? Wiki says: > A successor to the programming language B, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973 to construct utilities running on Unix. > In 1972, Ritchie started to improve B, which resulted in creating a new language C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language
- hctaw 6y agoIt's a play on words