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Discussion on: How programming languages got their names

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MurrayVarey

Yeah, I wish they'd been more creative. C used to be entirely Google-proof.

Also why did they decide to pick it back up at R?

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David Kanekanian

it was named after S

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MurrayVarey

"Holy crap, guys -- we're running out of names!"

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James Skinner

C came from B, which came from BCPL, and has been followed by D as well as C++, C# and Objective-C, which is actually searchable lol. It has nothing to do with the ABC language though, which actually inspired Python.