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- C# (pronounced C Sharp) was first known as “Cool”, a name which stood for “C like Object Oriented Language”, but was later renamed to C# in July, 2000 to coincide with its release to the public. The C# name as it stands now was musically inspired.
C# name was musically inspired. It is a C-style language that is a step above C/C++, where sharp (#) means a semi-tone above the note. (Being a musician myself, I think this is awfully fun.) Back when .NET made its debut, an amusing quip from the Linux crowd was to refer to C# as Db (D-flat), which is the same note as C#, but has different connotations. Two MS Research languages also bear musically-related names: Polyphonic C# and F#.
C# is currently in development of its fourth version release (4.0) as of October 2008. Another little fun fact: the name C++ implies being a step ahead of C, the “++” implying to increment (a programming method).
- People write poor PHP code. The proportion of insecure (aka “bad”) software written in PHP, out of all common software vulnerabilities, amounted to: 12% in 2003, 20% in 2004, 28% in 2005, 43% in 2006, 36% in 2007, and 33.8% for the first quarter of 2008.
One can also play with the vulnerability category, although most vulnerabilities do not seem to be explicitely tagged: only 964 out of 7601 are tagged. Among these, 790 (81.9%) are directly or indirectly related to a lack input of sanitization (code/command/SQL injections, input validation, cross site scripting, path traversal).
Please double check and sanitize your inputs, thank you very much!
- Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, works for Google where he spends half of his time working on Python.
In December 2005 I joined Google in Mountain View, CA. I knew Google’s services to be awesome; to work there is even better. But best is that I get to spend half my time on Python, no strings attached!
Wouldn’t that be awesome to work for Google yet still get to spend half your time working on your own programming language!
- Visual Basic was formerly known as “Project Thunder”. Here’s what Visual Basic 1.0 looked like:
Visual Basic 1.0 for MS-DOS
Oh how long ago the days of using MS-DOS feels.
- Larry Wall, the original developer of Perl, used to work for NASA. He developed it as a general purpose Unix scripting language to make his programming work simpler. The word around town is he’s pretty geeky.
GC/CS/E/H/IT/L/M/MU/PA/P/S/SS/TW/O d(+++)>+ s: a+>++>+++$ C++++$ UBAHS*++++$ P+++++(–)$ L !E? W+>++ N+++@ K+++>++++++@ w$ !O M->+ V–() PS+(-) PE(++) Y+ PGP->+ t+() 5 X? R>* tv@ b++>+++ DI+++ D? G(-) e++>+++@ h—-() r+++ y++++
Check out his personal web page.
Hmmm…. I guess Visual Basic image is for Quick Basic, the DOS Basic with IDE, that was the succesor of GWBasic.
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