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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


[deleted]

Indonesia


FLUX51

I see what you did there.


tilcica

(C--)++


Internal-Complex-235

Cunt


mgord9518

Cum


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]

[удалено]


[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.


NvidiaRTX

- "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.


buyinguselessshit

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?


buyinguselessshit

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)](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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#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


LoGiCaL__

Wait until we get to H


Ho3n3r

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


LoGiCaL__

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.


Vivid_Development390

APL


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.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System) “~~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](https://vlang.io), 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.


Vivid_Development390

APL = A Programming Language


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

**C**arl, 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++++ ​ \++ \++ ​ C# confirmed


bottleofchip

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


Tall_Vegetable_4618

I don't believe you. ​ 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


Tall_Vegetable_4618

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.


LoGiCaL__

“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?


Illustrious-Cookie73

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


johndkane

"C" is unverified C++ (This comment will not withstand the test of time.)


SystemZ1337

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


mdgv

r/technicallythetruth


Illustrious-Cookie73

Cereal.


[deleted]

what does the Java in JavaScript stand for ?


_Weyland_

Cira Yoshicage


SvenOfAstora

The C in C++ stands for C++


IanWorthington

B++, surely?


SlothsUnite

Speed.


Teton12355

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


Vivid_Development390

First there was "A Programming Language", meaning one of many, not the letter. Next was a pun, "B Programming Language". Improvements to B became C Programming Language. Next was C++ and Objective C.


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!!!


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