<story><title>C Minus Minus</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>Slightly related to this, this article made me check Simon Peyton Jones&amp;#x27;s wiki page [1], where I saw this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Jones has played a vital role in the development of new Microsoft Excel features since 2003, when he published a paper on user-defined functions.[19] In 2021, anonymous functions and let expressions were made available in the Office 365 version of Excel as a beta feature.[20]&lt;p&gt;Truly, there were (possibly still are) a lot of smart people working on Excel, as the years go by I&amp;#x27;m starting to think of it as one of the most interesting pieces of software ever written.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Simon_Peyton_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Simon_Peyton_Jones&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>C Minus Minus</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Welcome to C-- (2008)&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30006215&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30006215&lt;/a&gt; - Jan 2022 (23 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The C-- Language Specification (2005) [pdf]&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19429522&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19429522&lt;/a&gt; - March 2019 (27 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;C--: A Portable Assembly Language&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17966114&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17966114&lt;/a&gt; - Sept 2018 (1 comment)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;C--&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6621679&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6621679&lt;/a&gt; - Oct 2013 (72 comments)&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure there have been other threads. Anyone?</text></comment>