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Chris Angelico wrote:

> There's definitely something attractive about that letter. Lots of
> programming languages' names start with P.

Including one I invented some years ago, that (in the spirit
of C and its derivatives) was called simply "P".

(I was playing around with Sun's NeWS window server, which
was programmed in Postscript, and I got fed up with Forth-like
syntax, so I wrote a translator that took an infix language and
generated Postscript from it.)

-- 
Greg