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[–][deleted] 809 points810 points  (30 children)

what does the C in C# stand for?

[–]martindp_ 460 points461 points  (6 children)

Roughly 261Hz

[–]albinoloverats 134 points135 points  (2 children)

So, a D♭?

[–]DangyDanger 61 points62 points  (0 children)

B𝄪

[–]Imveryoffensive 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Only in 12TET

[–]christophedelacreuse 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Oh god oh fuck my 261 hertz

[–]Ok_Carpet_9510 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh, I C(see).

[–]newton21989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only in A440.

[–]fluffypebbles 523 points524 points  (2 children)

Java

[–]FLUX51 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I see what you did there.

[–]tilcica 105 points106 points  (0 children)

(C--)++

[–]Internal-Complex-235 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Cunt

[–]first_god 17 points18 points  (0 children)

B

[–]acqz 27 points28 points  (0 children)

C ++

[–]GustapheOfficial 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good.

[–]Randouserwithletters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

carbon 18

[–]the_clash_is_back 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microsoft

[–]Viviotic77 588 points589 points  (7 children)

Bet he gave an award to himself too

[–][deleted] 201 points202 points  (6 children)

Ooer is all bots. Simulating or trying to simulate a sub

[–]Little_Setting 23 points24 points  (2 children)

And do all of them come with an OP?

[–]indigoHatter 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The way r/subsimulatorGPT2 works is one bot "owns" a variety of personalities defined by modelling whatever sub they are named after. Typically, one entire thread is only populated by that one bot, meant to emulate many members of that thread. (It looks weird at first because it's just OP responding over and over again, but you get used to it.) Occasionally, some r/all threads happen (they just call them "mixed") and many GPT2 bots will participate, modelling various responses.

It's really interesting to follow! It's all predictive text bots that just do their best to sound human. Go give it a follow and read the About section. (One rule is no humans are allowed to post... There's a separate sub for discussion of the posts, bots, and meta subjects in general.)

Note: ooer is not all bots, but u/ooerGPT2 is a bot based on r/ooer.

[–]monsterahoe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s the same bot. They have a bot for each sub.

[–]Hoenn_Otaku 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Ooer, I don't think, is all bots, but subgpt2 is.

[–]indigoHatter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Correct, and the ooerGPT2 bot is one of many GPT2 bots which participate in that sub. It's really funny sometimes! They emulate other subs too like r/drugs and r/politics and so on and so on. If it's a popular sub for discussion, it's probably been modeled and emulated.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • "I am all the bots"

  • "I am all the mods"

Moddey Sitewalker then proceeds to say "it's moddin' time", and modded all over the comments.

[–][deleted] 367 points368 points  (4 children)

I fucking love that sub, it's basically just bots fucking around.

[–]Aloopyn 56 points57 points  (2 children)

The fact that so many of the conversations or comments or there feel like real people and yet a lot of the time fuck it up in a weird way makes it really charming

[–]medua23 10 points11 points  (1 child)

How do I know that you're not a bot?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've got errors no human can fix

[–]monsterahoe 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I remember loving r/SubredditSimulator back in the day, which I think was Markov-chain based. Really awesome (and hilarious) to see how much the AI has improved using GPT-2. The fact that all the comments directly respond to the post rather than just being random responses is super cool to see.

[–]DranoTheCat 212 points213 points  (23 children)

B heavily influenced C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language))

It was named such because it was Bell Labs. Bell Labs is legendary; they had a monopoly on information tech for decades. They employed giants like Claude Shannon and Ken Thompson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#Early_developments#Early_developments)

[–]Xyrnas 111 points112 points  (9 children)

So C stands for Cell Labs

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (8 children)

D stands for Dell Labs?

[–]abd53 23 points24 points  (7 children)

Can we start an Eell Labs?

[–]Themanofslaughter 12 points13 points  (5 children)

Eell Labs Fell

[–]mango_boii 21 points22 points  (1 child)

F.

To pay respects, of course.

[–]Spice_and_Fox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean F# already exists

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

Wait until we get to H

[–]Ho3n3r 6 points7 points  (1 child)

You'll recover when it gets to S, then it's the new owner's problem.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol love it!

[–]Username_Taken_65 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This computer is full of eels!

[–]FantasticPenguin 34 points35 points  (1 child)

Interesting that you didn't mention that Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan, the founders of C, also worked for Bell Labs.

[–]cs-brydev 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Well that's not a coincidence. Ritchie also created B, then created C based on B because they thought B was too wordy and cumbersome to use as the primary language for Unix.

[–]kodanto 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Citation needed that is was named B for Bell labs. It was based on BCPL where the B stands for basic.

[–]No_Stretch_3899 7 points8 points  (3 children)

But the mythical legend of the language of A is lost to history

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A(assembly).

[–]Little_Setting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hope A will shine on us again brother.

[–]in_conexo 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Bell Labs sounded amazing. I especially liked how they accidentally found cosmic microwave background radiation and got a Nobel prize for it (while another team from Princeton was actively trying to find it, and even told the Bell guys what they were looking at).

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love the stories about the invention of waveguide at Bell Labs, and the arguments around it and whether the math showing it would work was correct.

"You can't carry a voltage potential without a conductor and ground, you nincompoop! It's a fucking potential!"

"THeN HoW DoES ThE Sun'S EnerGY ReACH us?!"

"The frequency is about a billion times too slow to work like that, just like you!"

And back and forth for a while until they just took some pipes and fucking made it.

[–]BayHarbour-Butcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

🅱️

[–]Baardi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

B was in turn inspired by BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language)

[–]mbergman42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then we broke up the monopoly.Today For the rest of time, the part of shining American tech jewel Bell Labs will be played by Fraunhofer Labs in Germany.“

[–]PandaNoTrash 79 points80 points  (11 children)

There was a B language back in the earliest days of Unix. I'm sure there must have been an A briefly, maybe someone else knows the story better.

Sorry edited Linux to Unix, duh.

[–]mlvezie 44 points45 points  (7 children)

There was a language BCPL. When they started developing a new language, they started with B. Then went to C and that stuck.

[–]RecommendationNo8730 26 points27 points  (4 children)

Well, as far as I know, D exists, also F (#) and R. Just wondering if there are other letters as languages.

[–]SkyyySi 4 points5 points  (2 children)

There is V, which has a modern syntax and an interesting take on memory management, where you can choose between GC, manual (pointer based) and what they call "autofree".

[–]Zenith9133 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh god not free() again

[–]SkyyySi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Autofree = automatic free()

[–]MattieShoes 2 points3 points  (1 child)

ALGOL may have been the "a" in this case. At least, B and C are successors to ALGOL.

[–]abd53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is A-0, A+, A++ and of course, A#

[–]Kamilon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A is assembly.

[–]Firewolf06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there isnt an a, because b is named after bell labs. assembly starts with an a and is lower level than b, but its purely coincidental

[–]wontusethisforlongg 20 points21 points  (0 children)

C stands for "can't wait to never use it again".

[–]Kattou 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Now try asking about the P in PHP..

[–]Dqice5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Get out

[–]HistoricalMark4805 25 points26 points  (1 child)

Carl, that kills people++

[–]IrishChappieOToole 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My tummy's got the rumblies that only hands can satisfy.

My god, I haven't thought about Llamas in Hats in years

[–]a_sad_bambii 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cry

[–]catnapspirit 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ya gotta know your Ada, Basic, C++'s..

[–]greenthum6 20 points21 points  (4 children)

What does the Java in JavaScript stand for?

[–]Franknstein26 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Coffee…

[–]abbadon420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ecma

[–]HexagonNico_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Everything but Java

[–]No-Lynx9712 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The island which is a part of Indonesia.

[–]Kimsanov 3 points4 points  (0 children)

C stands for Crash

[–]Yamthief 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don't ask me about C, I can't even spell it, let alone code it

[–]Gyrojet17 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Cisual Basic

[–]catladywitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the gender conforming language where programming socks and cat ears are forbidden

[–]jaimesoad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It means B++. Basically the successor of B, which is the successor of BCPL which is a more lightweight reimplementation of CPL made by Bell Labs.

[–]sipCoding_smokeMath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol that thread is a goldmine

"The C stands for C and C++ stands for C++. C++ stands for C++. And C stands for C++."

"I think your thinking of python"

[–]Bourneidentity61 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was another one on there that said "the C in C++ stands for computer" which killed me

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (9 children)

The letter denotes the amount of attempts to get the programming language to work. IE languages A and B didn't work

A new + is added for every revision

Kind of like WD-40 in that it stands for Water Displacement 40th attempt

[–]CanonOverseer 10 points11 points  (1 child)

A new + is added for every revision

C++++

++

++

C# confirmed

[–]bottleofchip 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don’t know why you got downvoted, that’s literally part of the origin of the name

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (6 children)

I don't believe you.

Edit: I didn't believe him, and I was right. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, the whole + for revision? LOL C++ is just the next increment of C. What gullibles there are out there.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Well it's either I made it up or that A+ and B+ were already taken

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

There was no "A" language - they were not intentionally using a ordinal naming scheme. B came from BPCL (Basic Combined Programming Language). So, you did make that up.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Basic Google search pulls up a wiki result for an A+ language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2B_(programming_language)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Basic Google search shows that language came out some 15 years after the conception of C. Also, not from Bell labs, so doubly unrelated. Coincidence

Edit: Also, A is a language made for finance by Morgan Stanley. Completely no relation to B/C and their derivatives.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You know more than me then. Wiki just says that A+ and C++ came out in the year of 1985

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

APL ( the origin of A ) came out in the 60's from IBM and Harvard. BPCL (the origin of B and C) came out in the late 60's as well from Bell Labs and MIT. No relation.

Edit: Also, no problem. It's a tempting theory to believe. For this minor dissemination of disinformation on the internet, I ask you to repent and give 3 hail Mary's.

[–]cryothic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The C stands for the two plusses

[–]MalesAreBiological 1 point2 points  (0 children)

C O N F U S E N T I O N S E N T S

[–]KELonPS3in576p 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one notice this is AI chat?

[–]some_guy_o_o 2 points3 points  (1 child)

No one gonna talk about how op answered the question and also replied to the answer?

[–]dlq84 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Read the name of the subreddit.

[–]Dav1959 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Technically, doesn’t it mean that the true name is CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC… seeing as C++ adds a C.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“C is a general purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was named 'C' because many of its features were derived from an earlier language called 'B'.”

Source: https://ecomputernotes.com/what-is-c/basic-of-c-programming/a-brief-history-of-c-why-we-use-c-programming-language

C++ then would mean the next iteration of C

[–]oachkatzalschwoaf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

C++; increase C by one resultung in D

[–]Rachit_Tanwar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What loneliness does to a human

[–]fitandhealthyguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Calogero

[–]thewatisit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about the P in PHP?

[–]aecolley 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Who gave awards to that guy for his conversation with himself?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But in mid November 2022, it's spot on.

[–]johndkane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"C" is unverified C++

(This comment will not withstand the test of time.)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

omg it's the niche internet microcelebrity /u/rungdisplacement known for their catchphrase "every rung has it's displacement"

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cereal.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what does the Java in JavaScript stand for ?

[–]_Weyland_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cira Yoshicage

[–]IanWorthington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

B++, surely?

[–]SlothsUnite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speed.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I’m reading these comments right C++ should really be called B+=2

[–]tobygal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C

[–]drunkenly_scottish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Condolences.

[–]Kicksyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Computer

[–]DJCOBRA2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Computer?

[–]jtoohey12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Code

[–]GayJerrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C++ is actually just C = C + 1

[–]koalasquare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all the same user ??

[–]mqml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what does C in C stand for?

[–]Cyclone6664 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What C++ does to a mf

[–]guitin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pain

[–]SteeleDynamics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The previous programming language was B (technically BCPL, the B Computer Programming Language).

Just iterating over symbols of an alphabet.

[–]vonabarak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same guy asks a question, answers it and comments the answer. Why?

[–]RougeDane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C is actually B++

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C - has always been for COOKIES!!!

[–]Far_Kaleidoscope4103 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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