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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C (was Re: C critisisms)
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Date: 19 Jan 88 18:30:13 GMT
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In article <1050@polyslo.UUCP> steve@polyslo.UUCP (Steve DeJarnett) writes:
>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.
>	Since I don't see any smiley face here, I'm assuming that this is
>a serious question, to which the answer (according to everything I've read
...

How would the designers of BCPL have known that there was going to be
a C programming language.  This is liking finding a coin with 300 B.C.
stamped on it as the date.