[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: What is Jeopardy?

[Bill Long]

My preferred story:  “This programming language got its one-letter name from the grade received by its authors who submitted the language as their CS language design class project.”

(Actually, the previous languages were named A and B, both failed. Third time was the charm:  C was the one that survived.)

I did once look at D - it appears to be C with a lot of Fortran stuff layered on.

Cheers,
Bill
 

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 3:40 PM, Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f) via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> I've got an even better (probably much more obscure) question.  "This specialty programming language got its one-letter name because it started as a clone of another language whose name was the letter _after_ it in the alphabet."
> 
> Katherine Holcomb 
> UVA Research Computing   https://www.rc.virginia.edu
> kah3f at virginia.edu  434-982-5948
> 
> On 12/10/20, 4:31 PM, "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
>    On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 08:02:52PM +0000, Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f) via J3 wrote:
>> 
>> Looks like they snubbed C++ also.
>> 
> 
>    C++ was covered in the answer for 'C'.  I don't remember
>    the exact answer that Trebek gave, but to paraphrase
> 
>    "Bjarne Stroustrup add ++ to this one letter language to
>    create a new language".
> 
>    "What is C?"
> 
>    -- 
>    Steve
> 
> 

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