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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C
Message-ID: <10268@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 21:19:42 GMT
References: <11075@brl-adm.ARPA> <145@snark.UUCP> <881@micomvax.UUCP> <250@pedsga.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <1867@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>>... I always thought BCPL stood for "Before the C Programming
>>Language", since BCPL was a predecesor of C.

In article <250@pedsga.UUCP>, chip@pedsga.UUCP writes:
>I hope your kidding.  How can you use the name of something before it 
>exists?

Did your leg come off in his hand?  :-)  Of course he was kidding.

>During WWI, they just called it the World War, because they didn't
>realize there would be a WWII.

Actually, it was most often called the Great War.

(What is this doing in comp.lang.c?)
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