Talk:P′′

The name of the language[edit]

Are you saying the correct pronunciation is "pee prIm PrIm"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.53.172.147 (talk) 16:05, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm saying that the written name of this language given by the author (in the published article where it was defined), is a kind of curly letter "P" followed by two "prime" characters. The article doesn't say how to pronounce it. Here's a fragment of the published article, so readers can see for themselves. --r.e.s. 23:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page move[edit]

I moved this page from P prime prime to P′′. The article had a {{wrongtitle}} note, claiming the right title was ${\mathcal {P}}^{\prime \prime }$ . In my opinion, that's wrong. Page titles here on Wikipedia are always in the default roman font. For example, novel titles are written in italics, but the name of the article about a novel is still upright. Basically, what I'm arguing is that we wouldn't use \mathcal in the title even if we could. dbenbenn | talk 18:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, given that you've also added an important redirect to this article from P'' (using "single quotes" instead of "primes"). Since the "prime" characters in the title are easily misread as "single quote" characters, and also cannot be directly typed on standard keyboards, a reader searching for this article is likely to type P'' instead of P′′ (see what I mean?). --r.e.s. (Talk) 23:57, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On the subject of proper language names ...[edit]

As it stands, the article Bowdlerises the name of the Brainfuck language to brain**** . Which isn't appropriate, if you ask me, considering the detailed discussion of this language's name above ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by A Karley (talk • contribs) 03:02, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia:Schools' FAQ#Is it a safe environment for young people? states that "Wikipedia is not bowdlerized or censored." Accordingly, I've restored the original references to brainfuck in the article. --r.e.s. (talk) 03:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is the pronounciation?[edit]

Is there any one correct way to pronounce the name? --201.83.149.39 (talk) 00:20, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd like to know too. If there isn't a correct or agreed upon way to pronounce it, that should be noted in the article. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:15, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would guess the proper name is "Rho double prime", correctly written as Ρʺ or U+03A1 U+02BA, but the ambiguity is likely to be a mathematician's joke. 2001:470:1F09:10D6:3493:51E6:3757:8DCC (talk) 08:14, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Influenced[edit]

Is it appropriate to say that P′′ influenced brainfuck, given that it is unknown whether Urban Muller was aware of Corrado Bohm's paper/language? 140.32.111.75 (talk) 20:49, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]