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This list is disappointingly short. Here's a few more of the top of my head, feel free to expand the list! : C: a successor to B, itself derived from BCPL. C++: increments over C. D: a successor to C. LISP: LISt Processor. FORTRAN: FORmula TRANslator. ALGOL: ALGorithmic Language. Prolog: PROgrammation LOGique (logic programming in French). PHP: initially PHP/FI for "Personal Home Page Form Interpreter", later rebrand…
[0]:https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/09/go-ten-years-and-...
Lisp comes from List Processor.
Scheme was first called Schemer, which itself evolved out of the Planner language developed by Carl Hewitt at MIT. Schemer was shortened to Scheme to fit the ITS filesystem's six character filename limit (!) on the PDP-10.
Racket is a kind of Scheme. (I like this one)
Guile comes from Guy L. Steele, one of the initial Scheme developers. The other being Gerald Jay Sussman.
This list is disappointingly short. Here's a few more of the top of my head, feel free to expand the list! : C: a successor to B, itself derived from BCPL. C++: increments over C. D: a successor to C. LISP: LISt Processor. FORTRAN: FORmula TRANslator. ALGOL: ALGorithmic Language. Prolog: PROgrammation LOGique (logic programming in French). PHP: initially PHP/FI for "Personal Home Page Form Interpreter", later rebrand…
TIL that Rust is named after a fungus instead of corroding metal.
>the fungus Rust that is “over-engineered for survival”.
Obviously Rust is indeed surviving (and thriving) and damn it is over-engineered.
If C++ wasn't actively developed too, Rust would surpass C++ as the most complex programming language sooner or later.
I wonder if we have already reached the point where no single individual fully understands Rust (C++ passed that threshold years ago [1])
[1] Yes, even Bjarne Stroustrup himself can only keep a fraction of C++ in his head at any given time, even if it is a large one, e.g. there was an interview where he got the behavior of unique_ptr in a certain scenario wrong and had to be corrected on camera by Herb Sutter (who certainly can't keep the entire language in his head either).
Why would Kotlin be named after Kotlin Island? What's the connection?
Why would Kotlin be named after Kotlin Island? What's the connection?
TIL that Rust is named after a fungus instead of corroding metal.
..and aptly named too: >the fungus Rust that is “over-engineered for survival”. Obviously Rust is indeed surviving (and thriving) and damn it is over-engineered. If C++ wasn't actively developed too, Rust would surpass C++ as the most complex programming language sooner or later. I wonder if we have already reached the point where no single individual fully understands Rust (C++ passed that threshold years ago [1]) […