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From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William E. Sommerfeld)
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Subject: Re: The history of C (was Re: C critisisms)
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Date: 17 Jan 88 04:03:58 GMT
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In article <1867@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Are you sure?  I always thought BCPL stood for "Before the C Programming
>Language", since BCPL was a predecesor of C.

I always thought it was the Body Count Programming Language. 

					Bill Sommerfeld
					MITCLH '87 tech support.

(MITCLH, otherwise known as Clearinghouse, is a database system
written in a variant of BCPL and running on TOPS-20 systems; it is
used to help keep track of freshmen during rush/orientation week at
MIT.)