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by sverige 3323 days ago
At last, the long awaited successor to C, at least in the naming convention that assumes P comes after C because of BCPL. (Apologies to Walter Bright: No inference should be drawn that D was not also a good name for that sequence.)
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L must be lisp, brought here from the future by the space aliens.
Or Logo.
It's a language for expressing protocols. So, P for protocols most likely. It also focuses on safety and ease of analysis. Can't possibly be connected to the C lineage...
I believe it does compile to C, interestingly, so not really connected, but a little bit nonetheless