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On 26/08/2015 18:39, Ken Brody wrote:
> On 8/26/2015 8:01 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 26/08/2015 12:09, David Brown wrote:
> [...]
>>> 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".
>
> I don't know how long you've been using computers, but typing "flodge"
> on an old TTY took a lot more effort than "C".

But usually you can't type it by itself; it needs to be qualified.

> Just as "creat" takes less effort than "create".  ;-)

Not for me. My fingers find it easier to type well-formed properly 
spelled-out words. Anyway how often do you need to type the name of a 
language? And what proportion is it of the text that is being typed?

> Now...  Who chose the name "B" for that language?  (Of course, searching
> for "BCPL" gives me the Baltimore County Public Library site as the top
> hit.)

I got the language as the top hit (the library was third).

And BCPL has not really been topical for half a century so that's pretty 
good going.

-- 
Bartc

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  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
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                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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