Thursday, January 9, 2014

C# name!

I just bumbled upon this and this and learned the C# was once to be called Cool, but then that name was abandoned. It seems the name C++ comes from taking the name C and bolting an C-style incrementer on it that looks like this: ++

Keeping with that trend, C# would be C++++ wherein a ++ is slapped onto C++ to increment it. The # symbol is sort of like four + symbols and from there came the name. That is a better name than PHP, a recursive acronym for: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

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