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From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich)
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Subject: Re: p2c (was Re: a program by any other name...)
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Date: 13 Apr 90 18:04:45 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV's message of 13 Apr 90 02:48:03 GMT

In article <7763@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
Larry> I know, we could name it "pc", and offend the Pascallers, the radicals
Larry> and IBM all at once.

If you really want to get IBM upset, why not call it pl/c?  Of course we
would have to drop the '/' from the name to make UNIX happy. :-)

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