From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,874a953d12d0f4c4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" Subject: Fifty years Date: 1996/05/02 Message-ID: <9605021829.AA08142@most>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152643484 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: R. O'Keefe: > Fifty years of programming research and we end up with C++ ??? Little known history of C ( and by inheritance, C++ ): Back in those days, we had not developed "just-in-time" production, so all items had to be produced ahead of time. One couldn't predict as well as today what would be needed when. Therefore, it was inevitable that the time would come when there was a shortage of characters, and moreover, the quantity of each character was the same, even though in most languages, nearly a hundred times more letters are needed than punctuation marks and digits. Faced with such a shortage, it stands to reason that the marketing people would get first choice. Thus, programmers were left with most of the punctuation marks and digits. It was quite an argument just to be allowed to name it "C" instead of "3" -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) Office: 219-429-4923 Magnavox - Mail Stop 10-40 Home: 219-471-7206 Fort Wayne, IN 46808 elm (Unix): wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------