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On 26/08/15 14:01, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 26/08/2015 12:09, David Brown wrote:
>> On 26/08/15 08:19, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>>  On 26/08/2015 04:00, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>>  On 08/25/2015 10:22 PM, dougmmika@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>   Hi to all,
>>>>>
>>>>>   I hate to ask this, but this group covers C# not C, correct?
>>>>
>>>>  It's for C, not C#. I'm curious - what led you to guess otherwise?
>>>
>>>  It's the name, comp.lang.c - it's *so* confusing. It is not surprising
>>>  that people think this is a group for C++, or C#, or RDC, or Win32, or
>>>  Posix, or proselytism, or SQL. There is nothing in the name to suggest
>>>  that this group is about the COMPuter programming LANGuage called C.
>>>  Perhaps we should change it to something more descriptive, such as,
>>> say,
>>>  comp.lang.c - do you think then maybe people might get the hint?
>>>
>>
>> For people relatively new to programming, it can be confusing that there
>> are so many "C related" languages like C#, C++, and Objective-C.  Then
>> there are many managers and "human resources" folk who believe in the
>> language "C/C++" - and perhaps other combinations including C#.  And for
>> many search engines, it's only the letters that are relevant - they
>> can't distinguish between C, C# and C++.
>>
>> So blame Microsoft here - it was they who invented their own
>> not-quite-java language and confusingly called it C#.  Don't blame the
>> guy who politely asked a not entirely unreasonable question.
> 
> Oh, I wasn't blaming him. My response was not to him, but to James. And
> yes, of course it's Microsoft's fault. But it's partly Dennis Ritchie's
> fault. "C" is the worst thing about C. If he'd called it "dritchie" or
> "dmrlang" or "flodge", that would have been far better. Those are all
> terrible names for programming languages, but they're all better than "C".
> 

And I suppose we can blame that on the DECwriter keyboards :-)

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Quick Question dougmmika@gmail.com - 2015-08-25 19:22 -0700
  Re: Quick Question "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 19:24 -0700
  Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-25 23:00 -0400
    Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 07:19 +0100
      Re: Quick Question glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-08-26 07:55 +0000
        Re: Quick Question "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-26 06:04 -0500
          Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 12:58 +0100
            Re: Quick Question "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 05:20 -0700
          Re: Quick Question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:17 +0100
            Re: Quick Question "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-26 08:15 -0500
          Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-26 08:36 -0700
      Re: Quick Question David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-26 13:09 +0200
        Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:01 +0100
          Re: Quick Question David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-26 14:30 +0200
          Re: Quick Question Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> - 2015-08-26 09:14 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:40 -0400
          Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 10:23 -0400
          Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-26 08:39 -0700
            Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:43 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-27 09:26 -0700
          Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:39 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-26 18:46 +0100
            Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 14:08 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 22:41 -0700
              Re: Quick Question Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-27 08:40 -0600
                Re: Quick Question Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:49 -0700
                Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-27 14:28 -0700
        Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 10:24 -0400

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