octopii was . Re: [Gllug] Website developement

[David Irvine]

----- Original Message -----
From: David Freeman <freemadi at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 10:49 PM
Subject: octopii was . Re: [Gllug] Website developement


> --- Stig Brautaset <stig at brautaset.org> wrote: > David Freeman
> <freemadi at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > > > A lot of the languages that we hear about on a daily basis are
> > > > based around a C like syntax. Java, Perl, PHP, C and numerous
> > > > others all get their basic statements and constructs from the
> > same
> > > > place, I don't really see why you'd have so many issues with Perl
> > > > if you do C or Java for example. The only problems I can see are
> > > > the default variables but if you don't like those do it
> > > > explicitly.
> > >
> > > Was C based on B or BCPL? and wasn't that in turn based on a
> > > language beginining with A (ada pos?) I think it was the weird
> > > varibles with things like $%&£@ etc... appering so much which
> > > confused me.
> >
> > C has taken many of its ideas from BCPL, both directly and indirectly
> > through B, which also has ideas and constructs from BCPL[1][2].
> >
> > [1] - taken from the introduction in K&R2.
> > [2] - For this reason, it was argued that C++ should be called P, the
> >       next letter in BCPL.  I do not remember where I heard this
> >       argument.
>
> they also argue that C++ should be called ++C as it was orginally a
> preprocessor for C which generated C code which you then compiled with
> CC.
>
> /me wonders when someone will mention fortran :o)

/me puts on his asbestos underwear
Nothing wrong with fortran, its like intercal but without the logic.

D



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