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Comment by p4bl0

This list is disappointingly short.

Here's a few more of the top of my head, feel free to expand the list! :

C: a successor to B, itself derived from BCPL.

C++: increments over C.

D: a successor to C.

LISP: LISt Processor.

FORTRAN: FORmula TRANslator.

ALGOL: ALGorithmic Language.

Prolog: PROgrammation LOGique (logic programming in French).

PHP: initially PHP/FI for "Personal Home Page Form Interpreter", later rebranded as "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".

JavaScript: named this way to be associated with the popularity of Java.

Ada: in honor of Ada Lovelace.

OCaml: initially Objective Caml, because it added OOP support among other things.

Caml: Categorical Abstract Machine Language.

ML (as in SML): Meta Language.

SQL: Structured Query Language.

parent p4bl0 2 years ago

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