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From: sns@genghis.UUCP (Sam Southard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C (was Re: C critisisms)
Message-ID: <351@genghis.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 18:38:40 GMT
References: <11075@brl-adm.ARPA> <145@snark.UUCP> <881@micomvax.UUCP> <250@pedsga.UUCP>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <250@pedsga.UUCP>, chip@pedsga.UUCP writes:
> 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.

You mean that in 42 BC they called it simply 42?  And in 12 BC they called it
simply 12?  How did they pick when to place the 0?  And why did they count
backwards? :)
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Sam Southard, Jr.
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