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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: programming language names
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Date: 11 Jan 91 03:08:09 GMT
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In article <14834@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>From article <3561@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>, by lloyd@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (lloyd allison):
>> re the variety of languages.
>> 
>> I have been attempting to compile an A-Z (not a census)
>> of programming languages for some time. ...
>
>Many of the names listed should be all caps, because the are
>acronyms. For example, "BASIC" stands for "Beginner's Algorithmic ..."
>something-or-another, can't remember. I think I recall that

BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.


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