You may have heard the adage that there are only two difficult things in computer science , one of which is coming up with names. Some programming language names do make sense, for example Google named their language Go (lang). Other names - like Python and Java - are less obvious.
Let's look at the history of some iconic programming languages to find out how they got their names. Who cares - welcome to cat.
Python
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Java
Java 1990- Sun Microsystems Green Project. : Java , , C++, . Green Team « » , *7, , , ( « »).
Java Oak (: ) . , Sun , Oak - , Green Team Java. , : «, , ». , « », Java .
* 7 , . , , .
JavaScript
JavaScript 1995 Netscape — , Navigator, - . - , Netscape , - , , . Microsoft Internet Explorer, , .
Netscape , . Java, « Java», , Visual Basic C / C ++. , Java JavaScript 10 . Mocha.
Netscape, LiveScript. , Netscape «Java ». Sun, JavaScript “” Java: JavaScript , Java -. , JavaScript Netscape, Microsoft.
C (C, C ++, Objective-C, C #)
— Ada, . B, Bell Labs, C. .
C , C++, Objective-C C #. C++ Objective-C *, C# . C # : # () , . , # 4+ 2x2, , , C # «» C++.
*C++ — C; "++" — C.)
Objective-C — .. -.
Swift
Swift Apple 2010 . Swift Objective-C. Apple Swift , . Swift Shiny, « ». .shiny.
Swift , — . Swift , (eng. Swift) — , .
Haskell
Haskell , . , , : Haskell, Brook Curry.
— , «», .
Haskell, , . λ — -. , , λ “” > =. : >> =. Haskell — , λ.
Haskell
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