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When Java came out, before it stabilized, it was often jokingly called C--.
by jjslocum3 4y ago
When Java came out, before it stabilized, it was often jokingly called C--.
- DonHopkins 4y agoBefore Java, Bill Joy proposed "C++++-=": https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-million-instructions-per-second-3a8c92165cfe https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill... >Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second >The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(computing) >C++++-= >“C++++-= is the new language that is a little more than C++ and a lot less.” -Bill Joy >In this talk from 1991, Bill Joy predicts a new hypothetical language that he calls “C++++-=”, which adds some things to C++, and takes away some other things. >[...] The MIRVing of the Alto user interface into multiple new metaphors means that we are moving into very unfamiliar ground. Everybody should get a Macintosh and understand what’s special about it. We still have a long way to go.
- Rathseg 4y agoMy coworkers used to joke that we used C++ but wrote C--. I never knew the Java joke or that someone made it into an actual standalone language.