The Best Name Ever for a Computer Language
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The Best Name Ever for a Computer Language
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#2Agree with the article; Linda is great, both the name and the project. It was one of the more interesting topics of a Distributed Systems course that I followed, but I never ended up using it (or its concepts) in practice due to the performance overhead.
As a nitpick: Perl is originally not an acronym, the language used to be called "Pearl". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name
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#3No mention of TCL, pronounced "tickle"? This was the scripting language used in the ArsDigita Community System, one of the first commercially available platforms for database-backed websites.
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#4I've always been partial to "Lua". It's as fun say as it is to work with.
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#5> So a successor language to C was C++ (Like C, but a bit better)
C++ is not a bit better than C. It's a whole lot better (for most situations, that is).
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#6> So a successor language to C was C++ (Like C, but a bit better) C++ is not a bit better than C. It's a whole lot better (for most situations, that is).
Now that I see it, it'd not be "a bit better", but "4 bytes better".
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#7> A reworking of C++ became D
Hey, this is pretty offensive! D is a clean and nice language, compared to the comparatively train-wrecky C++.
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#8Maybe it's because I've been watching too much Justified, but I really liked hearing the "Harlan" announcement.
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#9I'm currently designing a Hardware Description Language. I'm probably going to call it Vee, because it's main competitors are VHDL and Verilog HDL, which have the same acronym. So mine will be VeeHDL. I'll HN it when it get nearer to completion.
PS I am aware no one says Verilog HDL...
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#10The page says, about C#,
> C#, which is also a musical note one semitone higher than C.
Which is true enough, but am I the only person to think that the original idea must surely have been to signify "(C++)++", with the two "++"es one on top of the other? (See: http://imgur.com/8On6Stn)
[EDIT: Thanks, wtetzner: apparently Anders Hejlsberg had the good taste to agree with me :-).]