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It's called attaining divinity (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think we mean different kinds of "generations".