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From: eao@anumb.UUCP (e.a.olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C critisisms
Message-ID: <148@anumb.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 00:33:55 GMT
References: <11075@brl-adm.ARPA> <7597@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: eao@anumb.UUCP (e.a.olson)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - MV
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In article <7597@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@joey.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes:
>In article <11075@brl-adm.ARPA> V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Stan Horwitz) writes:
>
>	C stands for Compact, I think, referring to the nature of
>the language. Considering the UN*X philophy in naming system
>utilities, it is not surpprising that the name has been
>consisting of one alphabet. 99% of the Unix utilities are written
>in C, and it is correct that C was meant to substitute assembly
>language for system programmings.

	
	Nope. 'C' is called that because it is a successor to 'B'! :-)