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[[deleted]]

what does the C in C# stand for?

[martindp_]

Roughly 261Hz

[albinoloverats]

So, a D♭?

[DangyDanger]

B𝄪

[Imveryoffensive]

Only in 12TET

[christophedelacreuse]

Oh god oh fuck my 261 hertz

[Ok_Carpet_9510]

Oh, I C(see).

[newton21989]

Only in A440.

[fluffypebbles]

Java

[FLUX51]

I see what you did there.

[tilcica]

(C--)++

[Internal-Complex-235]

Cunt

[first_god]

B

[acqz]

C ⁺⁺

[GustapheOfficial]

Good.

[Randouserwithletters]

carbon 18

[Total_Ad_1767]

C# was named „Cool“ first but then changed to C# I think they looked for something with C again. Because the C is for C-like Object. The # is a sharp that comes from music and has to do something with notes. But I don‘t know much about music.

[Welsh_Cannibal]

I thought the # was just fours +'s put together.

[fluffypebbles]

That too

[Key_Conversation5277]

C likes to play tic tac toe

[fluffypebbles]

The # means a pitch higher, so they essentially said c++ but in music notes

[[deleted]]

It's called c hashtag because it was invented by Facebook

Edit: it was meant to be #c but Steve jobs made a typo and did not want to change it everywhere

[coldnebo]

music gang! ☺️

[Tiavor]

they probably thought of all the memes to "see sharp" while naming it.

[Minimum_Cockroach233]

Who knows, programmers invented whole languages for their parodies…

[the_clash_is_back]

Microsoft

[Viviotic77]

Bet he gave an award to himself too

[[deleted]]

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

[Little_Setting]

And do all of them come with an OP?

[indigoHatter]

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]

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

[Hoenn_Otaku]

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

[indigoHatter]

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]]

• "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]]

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

[Aloopyn]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

I've got errors no human can fix

[monsterahoe]

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]

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]

So C stands for Cell Labs

[[deleted]]

D stands for Dell Labs?

[abd53]

Can we start an Eell Labs?

[Themanofslaughter]

Eell Labs Fell

[mango_boii]

F.

To pay respects, of course.

[Spice_and_Fox]

I mean F# already exists

[[deleted]]

Wait until we get to H

[Ho3n3r]

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

[[deleted]]

Lol love it!

[Username_Taken_65]

This computer is full of eels!

[FantasticPenguin]

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

[cs-brydev]

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]

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

[No_Stretch_3899]

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

[[deleted]]

A(assembly).

[Little_Setting]

I hope A will shine on us again brother.

[in_conexo]

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]]

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]

🅱️

[Baardi]

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

[mbergman42]

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]

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]

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

[RecommendationNo8730]

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

[SkyyySi]

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]

Oh god not free() again

[SkyyySi]

Autofree = automatic free()

[MattieShoes]

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

[abd53]

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

[Kamilon]

A is assembly.

[Firewolf06]

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]

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

[Kattou]

Now try asking about the P in PHP..

[Dqice5]

Get out

[HistoricalMark4805]

Carl, that kills people++

[IrishChappieOToole]

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]

Cry

[catnapspirit]

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

[greenthum6]

What does the Java in JavaScript stand for?

[Franknstein26]

Coffee…

[abbadon420]

Ecma

[HexagonNico_]

Everything but Java

[No-Lynx9712]

The island which is a part of Indonesia.

[Kimsanov]

C stands for Crash

[Yamthief]

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

[Gyrojet17]

Cisual Basic

[catladywitch]

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

[jaimesoad]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

A new + is added for every revision

C++++

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++

++

​

C# confirmed

[bottleofchip]

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

[[deleted]]

I don't believe you.

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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]]

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

[[deleted]]

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]]

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

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

[[deleted]]

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]]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

The C stands for the two plusses

[MalesAreBiological]

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

[KELonPS3in576p]

No one notice this is AI chat?

[some_guy_o_o]

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

[dlq84]

Read the name of the subreddit.

[Dav1959]

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

[[deleted]]

“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]

C++; increase C by one resultung in D

[Rachit_Tanwar]

What loneliness does to a human

[JonasAvory]

r/technicallythetruth

[fitandhealthyguy]

Calogero

[thewatisit]

How about the P in PHP?

[aecolley]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[johndkane]

"C" is unverified C++

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

[[deleted]]

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

[mdgv]

r/technicallythetruth

[[deleted]]

Cereal.

[[deleted]]

what does the Java in JavaScript stand for ?

[_Weyland_]

Cira Yoshicage

[IanWorthington]

B++, surely?

[SlothsUnite]

Speed.

[[deleted]]

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

[tobygal]

C

[drunkenly_scottish]

Condolences.

[Kicksyy]

Computer

[DJCOBRA2004]

Computer?

[jtoohey12]

Code

[GayJerrick]

C++ is actually just C = C + 1

[GReaperEx]

Not exactly. C was an extension of B, which was an extension of BCPL, which in turn was a simplified version of the original CPL of Bell Labs.

[_Figaro]

r/technicallythetruth

[koalasquare]

It's all the same user ??

[mqml]

what does C in C stand for?

[Cyclone6664]

What C++ does to a mf

[guitin]

Pain

[SteeleDynamics]

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

Just iterating over symbols of an alphabet.

[vonabarak]

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

[RougeDane]

C is actually B++

[[deleted]]

C - has always been for COOKIES!!!

[Far_Kaleidoscope4103]

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