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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C (was Re: C critisisms)
Message-ID: <1867@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 88 18:40:26 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Posted: Sat Jan 16 13:40:26 1988

In article <536@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) 
writes:
>(2) BCPL stands for Basic Combined Programming Language

Are you sure?  I always thought BCPL stood for "Before the C Programming
Language", since BCPL was a predecesor of C.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi