Dennis Richie is a personal hero of mine and i go out of my way to buy a cake every September 9th to celebrate his contributions to the world. It’s a real shame his passing was overshadowed at the time.
Got me confused on which goat have such interesting name, turn out it’s GOAT not goat.
I went looking for the implied ‘A’ language but couldn’t find it. Did find this though:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
Surprising how many single letter names there are.
B was based on BCPL, which I assume is where the name came from.
But the actual A language would be APL, which stands for A Programming Language. It’s a few years older than B and was pretty popular, so it could’ve influenced the name.
A Programming Language
Gotta admire the wherewithal of continuing down the alphabet rather than just “Another Programming Language”, through “Yet Another Programming Language” to “Dude, Where’s My Programming Language”.
Should have gone for something like “Dennis Richie Advanced Computing University Lab Annex.”
Parses weird, but look at that acronym.
Too bad about the typo on the sign…
AdvanceD.
Advance computing means it’s computing performed ahead of time - if it means anything at all.
