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From: chip@pedsga.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C (was Re: C critisisms)
Message-ID: <250@pedsga.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 18:03:35 GMT
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Reply-To: chip@pedsga.UUCP (Chip Maurer)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp., Tinton Falls, N.J.
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In article <1867@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>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.

I hope your kidding.  How can you use the name of something before it 
exists?  During WWI, they just called it the World War, because they didn't
realize there would be a WWII.  Likewise for BC/AD years.
-- 
         Chip ("My grandmother called me Charles once. ONCE!!") Maurer
     Concurrent Computer Corporation, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 (201)758-7361
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