A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Seeing this, Lao Wang scratched his head and turned to look at Jiang Xia: "Is there really so much to say about C language? I thought you just picked up a letter randomly and put it in the same category as languages ​​A and B."

"In the world of martial arts, reputations are self-made; such trivial matters are not worth mentioning..."

Jiang Xia is a bit irritable right now, not because of the name of the C language, but because of the word "dry".

Because he remembered the pineapple that he had given to Baba the sheep to eat with the iron butterfly.

That thing is now quite abundant in remote areas, but due to transportation difficulties, it can't be transported out. As a result, large quantities of this rare commodity, which people inland have never even seen before, are rotting in the fields.

Making dried apples is one thing, making dried pineapple is another, but the drying standards should be different, right?

Even the drying temperatures for medicinal herbs at Chinese medicine factories are divided into more than a dozen types, and there are also differences between pineapples and apples.

At the very least, pineapple feels prickly in your mouth when you eat it...

Should we ask someone with backup ideas?

We also need to consider microorganisms and gut microbiota; if someone gets diarrhea from eating it, that would be a huge sin...

Jiang Xia took out his address book and began trying to find someone who could answer his questions.

"Hey, why is Jinzhen speaking English? I've seen Comrade Xiuquan speak Mandarin when he's out!"

"You're still worrying about this kind of thing?"

"Yeah! Didn't we just lose for no reason?"

"It's simple. There are no Chinese translators at the IEC right now. Think about it, if we're going to take money from someone else's pocket, we have to be nice to them!"

"Really?" Old Wang's eyes widened, and he immediately believed it to be true.

Jiang Xia suppressed a laugh and didn't answer directly, but in her heart she added: It's fake...

The real reason is more complicated and also involves his personal "mischievous sense of humor".

In fact, he didn't take the "language disadvantage" seriously at all. On the contrary, he felt that English was a language that required creating new words for every new thing, and that the information density was too low, making it awkward to use.

When Jin Zhen first tried to write his speech in English, he encountered a huge obstacle: the existing English technical vocabulary was simply unable to accurately and concisely convey the new concepts in the design philosophy of the "C language".

So, when Jin Zhen came to him for discussion with her clumsy first draft, Jiang Xia did something that left Jin Zhen speechless...

Based on his memory and vague impressions, this rascal directly "created" a large number of new terms and abbreviations that sounded extremely professional and conformed to English word formation, but which would never exist in any current technical dictionary.

What is meant by copying without understanding?

It's about writing down words from memory, regardless of whether the word exists now or whether the spelling is correct. Just write it down first, and explain it later.

Therefore, Jin Zhen's speech manuscript was at most ten pages long, and it was only one-sided.

However, the proper nouns "created" by Jiangxia in the book have accompanying explanations that fill hundreds of pages.

He was having a great time inventing new words, completely unaware that Teacher Pei, who was responsible for completing and polishing the speech, had lost a large clump of hair in order to fit these "new words".

Take the term flexopensation, for example.

At that time, there were only two independent words in English: flexible (adjective, meaning flexible) and pensation (noun, meaning compensation). The industry only used the phrase "flexible pensation mechanism" to express this, and there was never a compound word that combined the two words.

Jiang Xia ignored all of that and simply wrote in his speech, "The core of our technology lies in the flexopensation mechanism," without even adding a footnote.

Teacher Pei first had to dissect the word formation logic of this neologism: demonstrate the rationality of the roots flex- and pens-, then supplement the explanation of the core meaning of "the process of integrating flexibility with compensatory function", and finally connect it with the then industry-standard phrase flexible pensation in the bilingual annotation to ensure that the golden-haired monkey could understand it.

Fortunately, Teacher Pei has a solid foundation. She not only sorted out this word, but also sorted out the logic and meaning of other new words created by Jiang Xia, such as nonlin-regulate (non-linear regulation, with the root non- indicating negation, lin- indicating linearity, and regulate indicating regulation), and perfectly brought it back together.

Furthermore, it introduced the concept of "Object-Oriented," a paradigm that did not exist at the time but became crucial in software engineering in later generations.

Teacher Pei imposed a mandatory definition on this newly coined compound word: she forcibly defined "Object" in this context as "A software bundle of related state (data) and behavior (methods that operate on that data)".

It's hard to keep up, isn't it? You have to follow a long explanation with every single word you see.

This is the ability to apply the mother of foreign languages!

Of course, Teacher Pei definitely didn't want this kind of praise; she just wanted to pluck out that guy with the messy little ahoge (cowlick)...

Many years later, when "object-oriented programming" has become one of the most fundamental pillars in the hall of computer science, and its related terminology has been written into countless textbooks around the world and regarded as the gold standard by countless programmers, few people know how simple, crude, and even somewhat unreasonable "knock-off" it was when it was first "born".

All of this can be attributed to that guy who was "scribbling" on technical documents in a small building by the Bohai Bay that year.

Later, when enthusiasts (mainly graduate students who were tormented by the increasingly complex, detailed, and convoluted derivative terms of later generations) tried to trace the academic origins of core concepts such as "Object-Oriented," "Encapsulation," "Inheritance," and "Polymorphism," they always got lost in a fog.

Documentary research shows that the first systematic definition and public exposition of these terms in a specific technical context undoubtedly points to the appendix of the report from the East at the IEC meeting that year.

This became a famous "term explosion" singularity in the history of computer science.

The impact, naturally, is profound and "chaotic".

For example, the scene at the IEC meeting a few days ago.

When Jin Zhen stood on the stage and, in slightly nervous but clear English, uttered the phrase "Object-Oriented Philosophy" and began to explain "Encapsulation" and "Inheritance," the first reaction of the Western experts in the audience, who considered themselves pioneers in programming languages, was not amazement, but confusion and self-doubt.

"Object? Object? What object? Does it refer to the thing that the memory address points to? Or is it a new data structure?" People whispered among themselves.

"Ha, I hope he's not referring to my wife. She's the 'object' that throws the most errors during runtime—unpredictable, resource-intensive, and prone to throwing unexpected exceptions!"

“Encapsulation? Encapsulation? Wrapping up data and operations? This sounds a bit like… modularization? But not quite the same?” Another person scratched their thinning hair.

"Inheritance? Inheritance? Code can be inherited? Like property? This metaphor is quite novel..." someone tried to understand.

“Hmph…Speaking of ‘inheritance,’ I don’t want my ‘son’ to inherit my current hairline.”

Yes, that's what the representative from the Lobster Country said.

"Polymorphism? Isn't that a biological term? What do they mean? The same code working for different data types? Is that... even theoretically possible?"

Many more people fell into deep thought.

Hey, that's exactly what I wanted, you guys to ponder. The silly kid's regular fabrication produced unexpected results!

These elites from various countries abandoned their initial disdain and began to seriously study the thick document explaining the terminology.

This discovery is quite significant; Chinese scientists were not exaggerating when it came to the development of this computer language!

The foreigners, who had been sitting slouchingly, gradually straightened their posture, and some even started taking notes.

That's it.

You must carefully remember what we say!