alphacyberranger to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish • 10 days agoIt's called attaining divinitysh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1566arrow-down123
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minus-square@mkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•8 days agoWhen the gp’s book says that C is a third generation language: I would guess the first generation is Fortran and the second generation contains ALGOL and BCPL. C was heavily influenced by BCPL. (get it? C comes after B)
minus-square@MonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilink1•8 days agoI think we mean different kinds of “generations”.
When the gp’s book says that C is a third generation language: I would guess the first generation is Fortran and the second generation contains ALGOL and BCPL. C was heavily influenced by BCPL. (get it? C comes after B)
I think we mean different kinds of “generations”.