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Re:Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl by yesbabyyes on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:30AM (#20224209)
C, D, and C++ on the other hand... And the naming of JavaScript had certainly never caused any confusion. Let's face it, programming languages have weird names.
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Re:Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl by josefx on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:00AM (#20231956)
There is a non trivial overlap between the people present for the creation of C (which followed B) and the creation of Go - so there may have been something weird in the water at Bell Labs sometime around 1980. D just followed the existing convention and C++ started out as an extension on top of C.

JavaScript on the other hand was an entirely intentional marketing move. Only issue was that the programmer they hired to create the language wasn't on the Java hype train.

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