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When I was at University 30 years ago, I used a programming language called APL. I believe the acronym stood for "A Programming Language",
This language was interpretive and was especially useful for array and matrix operations with powerful operators and library functions to help with that.
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Erlang Shen or Erlang is a Chinese deity who supposedly regulates floods, Erlang a computer language ideal for large volume applications. Is this just some kind of weird coincidence?
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For instance, I know that basically all languages that are object oriented based are basically derivatives of C# or C++ correct? Does anyone know the order they came in? Like C - C++ - C# - PHP, etc.
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I've been working in C for so long that the fact that compilers typically add an underscore to the start of an extern is just understood... However, another SO question today got me wondering about the real reason why the underscore is added. A wikipedia article claims that a reason is:
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Java's unary plus operator appears to have come over from C, via C++. As near as I can tell, it has the following effects:
promotes its operand to int, if it's not already an int or wider
unboxes its operand, if it's a wrapper object
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