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Why is the C programming language called C? And what happened to D?

There's more to the story than the alphabet.
InfoWorld

WinterTC: Write once, run anywhere (for real this time)

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability.
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Europeans believed the Aztecs were a primitive culture, but archaeaological finds at Templo Mayor have revealed an unbelievably large trade network.

Diego Matadamas-Gomora, a PhD candidate at Tulane University, spent months analyzing volcanic glass fragments excavated from ...
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Among the primitive Bakongo a record of thirty years' close intercourse with the Bakongo and other tribes of equatorial Africa, with a description of their habits, customs ...

Describes the peoples of the lower Congo, supplementing the author's former work "Among Congo cannibals" which dealt with a riverine tribe of the upper Congo. cf. Preface siris_sil_284171 ...
Nature

Compact astrophysical objects articles from across Nature Portfolio

Compact objects are compact stellar remnants, such as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes and specific types of these objects (e.g., pulsars and boson stars), as well as their larger ...
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The discovery of primitive art

Reprinted from The turn of the century / edited by Hilton Kramer (Arts yearbook I) (Arts magazine, 1957). Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-427). siris_sil_550729 ...