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The P in perl also comes from the P in BCPL, a language from 1966, also according to Larry Wall. And from BCPL came, in order... * B language * C, and its st

by vorg 12y ago

The P in perl also comes from the P in BCPL, a language from 1966, also according to Larry Wall. And from BCPL came, in order... * B language * C, and its statically-typed "C" derivatives C++, Java, C#, ObjectiveC * P for perl, and its dynamically-typed cousins and derivatives Python, PHP, Ruby, etc * L for whatever's next, must be the final victory of Lisp

anonbanker 12y ago
[citation needed]
- vorg 12y ago
  > Source: the Camel book > [citation needed] You didn't have a citation on your own quote when I responded to yours without a citation. Perhaps you should have written "Whoops, I neglected to add the source of my quote when you replied but have done now. I can't, however, find the source of yours -- where did you get it?". As for my quote about the acronym of BCPL being a premonition of the languages after it, I read it somewhere sometime before 1997 which was the last time I programmed in Perl.
  - anonbanker 12y ago
    So, we've confirmed that: * You maybe programmed in Perl once in '97. * You didn't know the difference between PERL and Perl. * You don't know what the camel book is (Programming Perl by O'Reilly), and have never even read the first chapter. * you have no citation for your BCPL statement.