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From: kruger@whyvax.dec.com (Desperate Drive Mounted to keep Larouche off Ballot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: YABCPL acronym
Message-ID: <8801181828.AA14542@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 18 Jan 88 21:28:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Rahul Dhesi writes:

>Are you sure?  I always thought BCPL stood for "Before the C Programming
>Language", since BCPL was a predecesor of C.
 
 Steve DeJarnett replies:

>>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

Oh come on Steve, grow a sense of humor. How could he possibly be serious? You
don't define names in terms of events that haven't happened yet!

I always thought it was Bitchin' Camaro Propulsion Language. Are you going to
enlighten me too?

dov