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From: jmh@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (Jim Hague)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C critisisms
Message-ID: <4123@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jan 88 17:13:35 GMT
References: <11075@brl-adm.ARPA> <145@snark.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmh@ukc.ac.uk (Jim Hague)
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In article <145@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes,
correcting some misinformation on C ..
>
>Grrr...if you don't know the answer, don't bloody make one up!
>
>.. BCPL (aka British Common Programming Language) ..

BCPL = Basic CPL ( CPL = Combined Programming Language ). This is the gospel
according to R & W-S. Thanks be to thee, O-CODE.

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