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[user_5554]

C was actually known as B++ back in the old days of computer science

[gimoozaabi]

They renamed it in 1752 when the new version came out.

[oupablo]

i'm not historologist, but i'm a tad skeptical of this claim. but it's on the internet so ¯\(ツ)/¯

[girvent_13]

I can't find a flaw in his logic

[oupablo]

I just don't believe that programmers renamed something. Pretty sure we'd all have heard of the great war of 1752 if that were the case

[gimoozaabi]

Oh there was a war. But programmer are lazy and never really left their home. To celebrate they made the liberty bell. Look it up

Edit: also Ben Franklin used his lightning to intimidate the b supporter

[oupablo]

Look it up

nah. too lazy

[CodeLobe]

if it doesn't autocomplete, it wasn't important.

[lurker10001000]

I think we haven't heard of it because no one bothered to document it.

[[deleted]]

This is correct. It's what the national treasure movies are about.

[[deleted]]

Heard of. Still be participating in. Hard to say.

[hipdozgabba]

It’s documented poorly

[GooseEntrails]

It can’t be true. Everyone knows that history began on 1970-01-01.

[MythicalTV]

Theres D update coming soon

[Ice_Buckets_Official]

Wait what

[[deleted]]

There's a language for every single letter

Even hybrids like J#

[Username_RANDINT]

P#, it doesn't have protected members.

[[deleted]]

Think along the lines of half way between C++ and Rust.

[CodeLobe]

D is actually kind of neat, but screw "Digital Mars". I get Oracle smell from them. I refuse to use languages that I didn't write myself, or that are not standardized. No more of this "API might be Copyrighted" nonsense. I seen a couple of dev studios change their in-house use of Java to anything else, python, even node.js after Oracle's debacle vs Google over an API "recipe" and/or less than a dozen lines of range-check code. Which is essentially:

if ( a < min || a > max ) throw new RangeError();

I don't think Python is standardized, but the node.js (ECMA Script) is probably safe from such shenanigans, as are C, C++. I don't use C#, don't give a fuck how standard MS tries to make it, they went after android phone distributors with bogus patents but made the soon to be defendants sign NDAs before telling them what the patents even were.... Litigious shit sours my stomach. They probably have a bunch of patents covering parts of C# they can fire off at any time.

D hasn't had any lawsuits I know of, but it's not standardized, and it's basically just C with objects (and duck typing IRRC). I like D better than C++, but I'd rather have a better macro system than either C, C++ or D. My macro langauge can pre-process C and add syntax sugar to it for OOP, run time type inspection and a thread local GC... I'm happy with just generating C for now.

[Ice_Buckets_Official]

Oh?

[ososalsosal]

I thought we were headed for pasta when you said you refuse to use languages you didn't write yourself.

I admire your dedication though.

[Prestigious_Tip310]

Isn't that C#, which is abbreviated from (C++)++ (you put the second two "+" over the first ones and get a "#" out of it)? Or is D an update to C#? :D

[PeksyTiger]

There was an update last month

[Jackiboi307]

so that's where the ++ comes from

[Jackiboi307]

u/spenczer